Will of Thomas Marcom

Thomas Marcom named sons, daughters, grandchildren, and Lewis Caudle and appointed Isaiah and Nathan Marcum executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas Marcom (printed THOMAS MARCOM)

Dated

12 July 1838

Proved

February 1839 court

Family named

Nathan (son); Isaiah (son); Thomas (son); Edmond (son); Nathan Marcum (son); Elizabeth Carlton (daughter); Amelia Dodd (daughter); Celia Cates (daughter); Polly Shepherd (daughter); Patsey Williams (daughter); William (son Edmond's children); Henderson M. Marcom (son Edmond's children); Mary Moring (granddaughter); Nancy Marcom (granddaughter)

Also left something

Lewis Caudle (no relationship stated)

Executors

Isaiah (son); Nathan Marcum (son)

Witnesses

Cornelius (x) Cook; Benj. Marcom

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 17.
• 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).