Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Strayhorn, Sr.
Will Book E, pages 287–288 · dated 30 June 1830 · proved February 1833
James Strayhorn named his wife, two daughters, and three sons and devised land previously purchased from James Hart and nephews.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Strayhorn, Sr. (printed JAMES (x) STRAYHORN, SR.)
- Dated
- 30 June 1830
- Proved
- February 1833 court
- Family named
- Rachel (wife); James (son); John (son); William (son); John Strayhorn (son); Elizabeth Strayhorn (daughter); Polly Strayhorn (daughter); David (my brother; deceased); Gilbert Strayhorn (my nephew, sons of my brother David); John Strayhorn (my nephew, sons of my brother David)
- Executor
- John Strayhorn (son)
- Witnesses
- J. M. Kerall; Thomas Crabtree; Wilson McKerall
- Land
- tract which I purchased of James Hart; tract which I purchased of my nephew Gilbert Strayhorn and John Strayhorn
- Also named
- James Hart; Gilbert Strayhorn, Sr. (their grandfather)
- In the paper’s words
- “weak in 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, pages 287–288.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 149.
- 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).
