Orange County Indexed
Will of John Walker
Will Book F, page 172 · dated 8 March 1843 · proved November 1843
John Walker named wife Hannah and two daughters, left Adam the Tate place, and appointed Sam Douglas and Absalom Hervey executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Walker (printed JOHN WALKER)
- Dated
- 8 March 1843
- Proved
- November 1843 court
- Family named
- Hannah (wife); Adam D. Walker (son); Mary (Polly or Dolly) Walker (two daughters); Hannah M. Walker (two daughters)
- Executors
- Sam M. Douglas (friends); Absalom Hervey (friends)
- Witnesses
- John C. Douglas; James Gilliam
- Land
- pnantation called the Tate place
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 172.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 200.
- 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).
