Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth (x) Rogers
Will Book E, page 267 · dated 11 September 1829 · proved February 1832
Elizabeth Rogers provided equal shares for grandchildren except Idlett Rogers, who had inherited from William Rogers, and named son Theopilus.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth (x) Rogers (printed ELIZABETH (x) ROGERS)
- Dated
- 11 September 1829
- Proved
- February 1832 court
- Family named
- Theopilus (son); Idlett Rogers (grandchild)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Webb (daughter of John Webb)
- Executor
- James A. Craig
- Witnesses
- John Cheek; Sarah (x) Freshwater
- Also named
- John Webb; William Rogers (his grandfather)
- In the paper’s words
- “weak and infirm”
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 267.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 146.
- 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).
