Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary Kelley
Will Book E, page 213 · dated 6 August 1828 · proved February 1830
Mary Kelley left her inherited estate share to sisters Nancy and Betsy and paid Sally Lockhart for nursing services.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary Kelley (printed MARY KELLEY)
- Dated
- 6 August 1828
- Proved
- February 1830 court
- Family named
- Keziah Bane (sister); Nancy (sister); Betsy (sister)
- Also left something
- Sally Lockhart
- Executor
- Thomas W. Holden
- Witnesses
- Hugh Cain; John Lockhart
- Money and goods
- $15
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 213.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 136.
- 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).
