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Orange County Indexed

Will of Ezekiel Veazey

Will Book F, page 14 · dated 10 May 1834 · proved May 1838

Ezekiel Veazey named wife Frances, daughters Mealey and Thersday, and son Leonard and appointed Edward Veazey and Elijah Hester executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Ezekiel Veazey (printed EZEKIEL VEAZEY), of Granville County
Dated
10 May 1834
Proved
May 1838 court
Family named
Frances (wife); Leonard (son); Edward Veazey (son); Mealey Jarrot (daughter); Thersday (?) (daughter)
Executors
Edward Veazey (son); Elijah Hester (friend)
Witnesses
William Veazey; John C. Veazey

Reading note: Shields questions Thersday (?).

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 14.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 181.
  • 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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