Orange County Indexed
Will of Frances Childs
Will Book E, page 70 · dated 10 January 1823 · proved August 1824
Frances Childs divided the estate equally between son Samuel and wife Martha and appointed Simon Turner executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Frances Childs (printed FRANCES CHILDS), of Orange County, N.C. now in Roane County Tennessee
- Dated
- 10 January 1823
- Proved
- August 1824 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Frances Child and the probate as November 1824. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Martha (my wife); Samuel (my son)
- Executor
- Simon Turner (of Murray County)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Eskridge; Abigail Johnston
- Also named
- FRANCIS CHILDS (maker spelling in court narrative)
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 70.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 112.
- 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).
