Will of Thomas Holloway, Sr.

Thomas Holloway provided for wife Lydia, children, and other beneficiaries and appointed James Latta, John Leathers, and Williamson Burton executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas Holloway, Sr. (printed THOMAS HOLLOWAY, SR.)

Dated

18 November 1834

Proved

May 1835 court

Family named

Lydia (wife); Bennehan Holloway (son); Samuel Holloway (son); Polly Woods (daughter); Lucy Whitaker (daughter); John (my children); Williamson (my children); Sarah (my children); Lydia Caroline (my children); Milly Holloway (my children)

Also left something

Susannah Whitaker; David Holloway; William Holloway; Hannah Latta; Ann Farthing; Agatha Harward (married); Thomas Holloway; Sarah Holloway; Fanny Leathers; James Holloway; John Holloway; Williamson Holloway; Lydia Caroline; Milly Holloway

Executors

James Latta (friends); John Leathers (friends); Williamson Burton (friends)

Witnesses

Archibald Cain; William Piper

Also named

Elizabeth Trice

Reading note: My children John, Williamson, Sarah, Lydia Caroline, and Milly Holloway has shared surname. Said three daughters all under age ?.

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 355–357.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 161.
• 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).