Orange County Indexed
Will of Betsy (x) Graves
Will Book E, page 309 · dated 10 May 1832 · proved November 1833
Betsy Graves left a carriage and harness to two granddaughters and named son Elijah and three grandsons.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Betsy (x) Graves (printed BETSY (x) GRAVES)
- Dated
- 10 May 1832
- Proved
- November 1833 court
- Family named
- Elijah (son); Selina F. Graves (my two granddaughters); Betsy C. Graves (my two granddaughters); Ralph Lewis Graves (grandson, son of Elijah); Jessey Dixon Graves (grandson, sons of my dear Henry); Elijah Calvin Graves (grandson, sons of my dear Henry)
- Executor
- Elijah (son)
- Witnesses
- Archibald Andrews; Isaac Durham
- Money and goods
- my four wheel carriage and harness
- Also named
- Henry (my dear)
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 309.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 154.
- 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).
