Orange County Indexed
Will of William Gattis
Will Book F, page 212 · dated 18 April 1844 · proved August 1844
William Gattis named wife Rebecca and unnamed children and appointed Rebecca executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Gattis (printed WILLIAM GATTIS)
- Dated
- 18 April 1844
- Proved
- August 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 1 April 1844. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Rebecca (wife)
- Executor
- Rebecca (wife)
- Witnesses
- D.D.Pane; Nath'l ? Bain
Reading note: Shields questions Nath’l ? Bain.
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 212.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 206.
- 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).
