Will of Elizabeth (x) Strayhorn

Elizabeth Strayhorn named niece Rachel, nephews, sister Polly, three brothers, mother Rachel, and Emmely Malone and appointed two executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elizabeth (x) Strayhorn (printed ELIZABETH (x) Strayhorn)

Dated

7 December 1836

Proved

February 1837 court

Family named

Rachel Strayhorn (mother); Polly Bowland (sister); William (three brothers); John (three brothers); James Strayhorn (three brothers); Rachel Strayhorn (niece); Thompson (nephew); James Strayhorn (nephew)

Also left something

Emmely Malone

Executors

Andrew Bowland (worthy friends); Bryant Strayhorn (worthy friends)

Witnesses

S. Strayhorn; J. S. Smith

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 410.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 172.
• 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).