Will of Letty (x) Sanders

Letty Sanders provided for three Neal grandchildren and John Rhodes and conditionally left five shillings each to two sons and daughter Franky.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Letty (x) Sanders (printed LETTY (x) SANDERS)

Dated

30 October 1827

Proved

November 1827 court

Family named

Jordan (son); Henry (son); Franky (daughter); Henry Neal (grandson, son of John Neal); James Monroe Neal (grandson, son of John Neal); Eliza Neal (granddaughter, daughter of John Neal)

Also left something

John Rhodes (son of Benjamin Rhodes)

Executor

James Rainey (friend)

Witnesses

Alfred Horne; Riley Neal

Money and goods

5 shillings each; 5 shilling if demanded

Also named

John Neal; Benjamin Rhodes (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 150.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 126.
• 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).