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Orange County Indexed

Codicil of Elenor (x) Rogers

Will Book F, page 217 · proved August 1844

Elenor Rogers stated daughter Elenor had died and acknowledged unmarried granddaughter Sally Rogers’s care.

Kind of paper
Codicil
Testator
Elenor (x) Rogers (printed ELENOR (x) ROGERS)
Dated
As printed: “Codicil, no date”
Proved
August 1844 court
Family named
Elenor (daughter; has died); Sally Rogers (granddaughter; unmarried)
Witnesses
John Rogers; Milton S. Holt

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 217.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 207.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
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