Orange County Indexed
Will of Miriam (x) Strain
Will Book E, page 219 · dated 30 April 1830 · proved May 1830
Miriam Strain left land to three sons, fifty cents to Alexander, and named two daughters and two granddaughters.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Miriam (x) Strain (printed MIRIAM (x) STRAIN)
- Dated
- 30 April 1830
- Proved
- May 1830 court
- Family named
- James (son); Samuel (son); David (son); Alexander (son); Mary Strayhorn (daughter, wife of Bryant Strayhorn); Elizabeth Elkins (daughter); Mary Strayhorn (granddaughter); Jane Strayhorn (granddaughter); Bryant Strayhorn
- Executor
- John McCauley
- Witnesses
- Wm. D. Strain; John Strayhorn
- Money and goods
- 50¢
- In the paper’s words
- “low in health”
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 219.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 137.
- 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).
