Orange County Indexed
Will of Lucy (x) Jefres
Will Book E, page 257 · dated October 1819 · proved August 1831
Lucy Jefres named granddaughters Milly and Lucy and grandsons James, Samuel, and Cato and appointed Fielding Leathers executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lucy (x) Jefres (printed LUCY (x) JEFRES)
- Dated
- October 1819
- Proved
- August 1831 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 13 September 1827. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Milly (granddaughter); Lucy (granddaughter); Ja mes (grandson; surnames not stated); Samuel (grandson; surnames not stated); Cato (grandson; surnames not stated)
- Executor
- Fielding Leathers
- Witnesses
- Robert Faucet; James Webb
Reading note: Grandsons printed Ja mes Samuel and Cato without punctuation; interpreted James, Samuel, Cato; surnames not stated.
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 257.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 144.
- 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).
