Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth (x) King
Will Book E, page 385 · dated 6 April 1836 · proved August 1836
Elizabeth King left land to Levina, John, and Hezekiah and small sums to James Wyate and Empson Byrd and their sons.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth (x) King (printed ELIZABETH (x) KING)
- Dated
- 6 April 1836
- Proved
- August 1836 court
- Family named
- John (widow of); John (son); Hezekiah King (son); Levina King (daughter); John Wyate (my well-beloved grandson, his son; under age)
- Also left something
- James Wyate; Empson Byrd; Thomas (his oldest sons); John Byrd (his oldest sons)
- Executors
- John (son); Levina King (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Thomas A. Horn; Levi Truet
- Land
- tract whereon I now live
- Money and goods
- $1; $2
- 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, page 385.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 167.
- 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).
