Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas S. Cox
Will Book F, page 115 · dated 23 March 1840 · proved February 1841
Thomas Cox left property in trust for mother Elizabeth, then father Charles, then five sisters and appointed Osmond F. Long trustee and executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas S. Cox (printed THOMAS S. COX)
- Dated
- 23 March 1840
- Proved
- February 1841 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1842. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Charles Cox (father); Elizabeth Cox (mother); Margaret (sister); Nancy (sister); Caroline (sister); Elizabeth (sister); Isabella (sister)
- Executor
- Osmond F. Long
- Trustee
- Osmond F. Long
- Witnesses
- Steve Moore; Jas. Sneed
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 F, page 115.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 194.
- 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).
