Orange County Indexed
Will of Sarah (x) Strain
Will Book E, page 221 · dated 25 February 1830 · proved May 1830
Sarah Strain named her brothers, sisters, and six nieces, held a note against her mother, and appointed Bryant Strayhorn executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sarah (x) Strain (printed SARAH (x) STRAIN)
- Dated
- 25 February 1830
- Proved
- May 1830 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 25 February 1829. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Maryann Strain (mother); James (brother); Samuel Strain (brother); Mary Strayhorn (sister, wife of Bryant Strayhorn); Elizabeth Elkins (sister); Mary Strayhorn (my six nieces); Jane Strayhorn (my six nieces); Elizabeth Strayhorn (my six nieces); Mary Strain (my six nieces); Elizabeth Strain (my six nieces); Sarah Strain (my six nieces)
- Executor
- Bryant Strayhorn
- Witnesses
- Samuel Strain; Alex, Gattis; Mary Strayhorn
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 221.
- 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).
