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Orange County Indexed

Will of Leslie O’Kelly

Will Book E, page 75 · dated 6 December 1824 · proved February 1825

Leslie O’Kelly named Nancy and unnamed children and appointed brother Franklin O’Kelly and brother-in-law John McCuiston executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Leslie O’Kelly (printed LESLIE O’KELLY)
Dated
6 December 1824
Proved
February 1825 court
Family named
Nancy (wife); Franklin O’Kelly (brother); John McCuiston (brother-in-law)
Executors
Franklin O’Kelly (brother); John McCuiston (brother-in-law)
Witnesses
Henry Moring; William Hudson

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 75.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 113.
  • 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).
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