Orange County Indexed
Will of Lewis (x) Hornaday
Will Book E, page 501 · dated 24 February 1837 · proved August 1837
Lewis Hornaday distributed plantations among sons, provided brother Simon use of land, and named wife Dinah, daughters, and Dinah Marshall.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lewis (x) Hornaday (printed LEWIS (x) HORNADAY)
- Dated
- 24 February 1837
- Proved
- August 1837 court
- Family named
- Dinah (wife); William (son); John (son); Simon (son); Ezekiel (son); Lewis (son); William Hornaday (son); Susannah Foust (daughter); Polly Stafford (daughter); Ruth Wells (daughter); Rebecca Hill (daughter); Hester Alexander (daughter); Simon (brother)
- Also left something
- Dinah Marshall
- Executors
- William Hornaday (son); William Thompson (friend)
- Witnesses
- John McPherson; R. Freeman
- Land
- plantation on which he is now living; Cotner place; Dale plantation; Pike plantation; Dixon place
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 501.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 176.
- 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).
