Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth Gaskell
Will Book F, page 210 · dated 26 July 1844 · proved August 1844
Elizabeth Gaskell named three daughters, Mary Gaskell, Susan Gaskell, and Drusilla, and appointed James A. Craig executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth Gaskell (printed ELIZABETH GASKELL)
- Dated
- 26 July 1844
- Proved
- August 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Elizabeth Gaskill and the date as 26 May 1844. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Drusilla Gaskell (younger daughter); Mary Gaskell (my three daughters); Susan Gaskell (my three daughters); Drusilla (my three daughters)
- Executor
- James A. Craig (friend)
- Witnesses
- Randolph C. Mabrey; George Crawford
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 210.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 205.
- 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).
