Orange County Indexed
Will of Reeves Mangum
Will Book F, page 214 · dated 27 March 1843 · proved August 1844
Reeves Mangum named wife Martha and unnamed children and appointed son William executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Reeves Mangum (printed REEVES MANGUM)
- Dated
- 27 March 1843
- Proved
- August 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 17 March 1843. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Martha (wife); William (son)
- Executor
- William (son)
- Witnesses
- Thos. W. Gooch; Harris Wilkerson
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 214.
- 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).
