Orange County Indexed
Will of James Ray, Sr.
Will Book E, page 408 · dated 11 January 1837 · proved February 1837
James Ray named Sally Daugherty and four grandchildren and appointed grandson James Ray and Hezekiah Terry executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Ray, Sr. (printed JAMES RAY, SR.)
- Dated
- 11 January 1837
- Proved
- February 1837 court
- Family named
- James Ray (grandson); Elizabeth Ray (granddaughter); Polly Cole (granddaughter); Rosanna Jones (granddaughter)
- Also left something
- Sally Daugherty
- Executors
- James Ray (grandson); Hezekiah Terry (worthy friend)
- Witnesses
- Charles Wilson; Jon R. McKee
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 408.
- 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).
