Orange County Indexed
Will of Sally Lewis Reeves
Will Book E, page 147 · dated 7 March 1827 · proved November 1827
Sally Lewis Reeves conditionally left three enslaved people to brother George Washington Reeves and appointed her father executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sally Lewis Reeves (printed SALLY LEWIS REEVES)
- Dated
- 7 March 1827
- Proved
- November 1827 court
- Family named
- Willis Reeves (father); Martha E. Reeves (sister); George Washington Reeves (brother); John Claiborn Reeves (brother)
- Executor
- Willis Reeves (father)
- Witness
- W. Reeves
- Enslaved people not named
- Three enslaved people
- Also named
- William B. Hill (his brother; deceased)
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book E, page 147.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 125.
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
