Will of Elenor (x) Woods

Elenor Woods named grandchildren James, Rebecca, and Harriet Hopkins and appointed Henry Whitted executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elenor (x) Woods (printed ELENOR (x) WOODS)

Dated

10 August 1842

Proved

May 1843 court

Family named

James Hopkins (grandchild); Rebecca Hopkins (grandchild); Harriet Hopkins (grandchild)

Executor

Henry Whitted (Trusty friend)

Witnesses

James Montgomery; Lydia (x) Grimes

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 157.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 198.
• 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).