Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth (x) Laws
Will Book E, page 302 · dated 16 October 1828 · proved August 1833
Elizabeth Laws named friend Thos. D. Bennehan, Mary Furgerson, and William Laws and appointed Bennehan executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth (x) Laws (printed ELIZABETH (x) LAWS)
- Dated
- 16 October 1828
- Proved
- August 1833 court
- Family named
- Leonard Laws (my nephew)
- Also left something
- Thos. D. Bennehan (friend); Mary Furgerson (wife of John Furgerson); William Laws (son of my nephew Leonard Laws)
- Executor
- Thos. D. Bennehan
- Witnesses
- Wm. Horner; Sam'l Yarborough; Young Dorch; A. Williams
- Also named
- John Furgerson
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 302.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 152.
- 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).
