Orange County Indexed
Will of Ralph (x) Faucett, Sr.
Will Book E, page 510 · dated 17 July 1837 · proved November 1837
Ralph Faucett named wife Martha, six daughters, and three sons and appointed friend Robert Gillam executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Ralph (x) Faucett, Sr. (printed RALPH (x) FAUCETT, SR.)
- Dated
- 17 July 1837
- Proved
- November 1837 court
- Family named
- Martha (wife); William Faucett (son); Ralph Faucett (son); Bracken Faucett (son); Sarah Weedon (daughter); Emelia Wilson (daughter); Martha Wilson (daughter); Charity Dickey (daughter); Rachel (daughter); Clarissa (daughter; unmarried)
- Executor
- Robert Gillam (friend)
- Witnesses
- Robert Faucett; Snelson Love
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 510.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 177.
- 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).
