Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) Strayhorn
Will Book E, page 424 · dated 7 July 1837 · proved August 1837
William Strayhorn directed his unnamed mother-in-law to raise and educate his unnamed children and nominated alternative executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) Strayhorn (printed WILLIAM (x) STRAYHORN)
- Dated
- 7 July 1837
- Proved
- August 1837 court
- Family named
- Aaron (my brother)
- Executors
- William Duskin; Heart; Aaron (my brother)
- Witnesses
- E. Strudwick; Walter A. Norwood
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 424.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 175.
- 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).
