Orange County Indexed
Will of John Faddis, Sr.
Will Book E, page 201 · dated 12 May 1824 · proved November 1829
John Faddis left his estate to wife Nancy for life and named two children, granddaughters, and three executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Faddis, Sr. (printed JOHN FADDIS, SR.), of the Town of Hillsborough
- Dated
- 12 May 1824
- Proved
- November 1829 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 18 May 1824. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Thomas J. Faddis (son); Ann (daughter Nancy, also called); Nancy Womack (my two children); Thomas J. Faddis (my two children); Eliza Womack (granddaughter); Mary Jane Womack (granddaughter); Jacob P. Womack (husband of daughter Nancy)
- Executors
- Thomas J. Faddis (son); Jonathan P. Sneed
- Witnesses
- James Webb; F. B. Phillips
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 201.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 134.
- 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).
