Will of Elenor (x) Rogers

Elenor Rogers named sons, daughters, sister Jane, and two underage grandsons and appointed William Rogers executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elenor (x) Rogers (printed ELENOR (x) ROGERS)

Dated

30 March 1841

Proved

August 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 30 March 1840. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Will. Rogers (youngest son; unmarried); James Rogers (son); John Rogers (son); William Rogers (son); Jane Holt (?) (four daughters); Ann Albright (four daughters); Elenor Johnson (four daughters); Mary Foust (four daughters); Elenor Johnston (daughter); John (sons of daughter Elenor Johnston; both under 21 years of age); James (sons of daughter Elenor Johnston; both under 21 years of age); Jane Rogers (only sister wife of Wm. Robess (?) the elder); Wm. Robess (?) (the elder)

Executor

William Rogers (son)

Witnesses

Thomas Ruffin; Milton S. Holt

Reading note: Shields questions Jane Holt (?) and Wm. Robess (?) the elder.

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 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).