Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Rumbley
Will Book F, page 197 · dated 18 March 1839 · proved May 1844
John Rumbley left land to Thomas, named wife Elizabeth and children, and made small legacies to sons and Aron’s heirs.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Rumbley (printed JOHN (x) RUMBLEY)
- Dated
- 18 March 1839
- Proved
- May 1844 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Thomas Rumbley (son); James (son); Edward (son); William (son); Aron Rumbley (son); John Severn (?) Rumbley (two infant children); Rachel L. (?) Rumbley (two infant children)
- Executor
- Elizabeth (wife)
- Witnesses
- Benj. Hurdle; John Pyle
- Land
- 150 acres Adam's Old Tract which he now lives on
- Money and goods
- $1 each; $1
Reading note: Shields questions John Severn (?) Rumbley and Rachel L. (?) Rumbley.
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 197.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 204.
- 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).
