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Orange County Indexed

Will of Aaron Walker

Will Book E, page 289 · dated 1 February 1833 · proved February 1833

Aaron Walker named wife Sarah, three sons, and two married daughters and appointed son Levi Walker executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Aaron Walker (printed AARON WALKER)
Dated
1 February 1833
Proved
February 1833 court
Family named
Sarah (wife); Levi Walker (son); Empson Walker (son); Freeman Walker (son); Nancy Shaw (daughter wife of John W. Shaw); Harriett Crawford (daughter wife of Philip Crawford); John W. Shaw; Philip Crawford
Executor
Levi Walker (son; Dr.)
Witnesses
J. S. Smith; John Walker; James Walker

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 289.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 150.
  • 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).
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