Orange County Indexed
Will of Lydia (x) Dillard
Will Book E, page 250 · dated 30 May 1830 · proved August 1831
Lydia Dillard named four youngest daughters among thirteen children and appointed son Willis executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lydia (x) Dillard (printed LYDIA (x) DILLARD)
- Dated
- 30 May 1830
- Proved
- August 1831 court
- Family named
- Willis (son); Eliza (four youngest daughters); Caroline (four youngest daughters); Martha (four youngest daughters); Mary Jane (four youngest daughters)
- Executor
- Willis (son)
- Witnesses
- Wm. R. Herndon; Polly (x) Blake; David Roberts
- In the paper’s words
- “weak of body”
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 250.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 143.
- 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).
