Will of Rachel (x) Strayhorn

Rachel Strayhorn named children and grandchildren and appointed Andrew Bowland and Samuel Strayhorn executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Rachel (x) Strayhorn (printed RACHEL (x) STRAYHORN)

Dated

18 December 1836

Proved

February 1827 court

A second reading

As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1837. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

James (widow of); William Strayhorn (son); John Strayhorn (son); John Thompson (son); John Strayhorn (son); Polly Bowland (daughter); Thompson (grandson); James Strayhorn (grandson); Rachel Strayhorn (granddaughter); Willie Strayhorn (grandchild); Malcacy A. Strayhorn (grandchild)

Executors

Andrew Bowland (friends); Samuel Strayhorn (friends)

Witnesses

Aaron Strayhorn; William (x) Strayhorn

Reading note: Proved 1827 printed after writing 1836. Thompson and James Strayhorn share surname printed once. John Strayhorn appears twice as son.

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 406–407.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 171.
• 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).