Will of Catherine (x) Horn

Catherine Horn left one dollar to son John Horn and named daughter-in-law Elizabeth Horner and her three children.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Catherine (x) Horn (printed CATHERINE (x) HORN)

Dated

21 September 1838

Proved

November 1843 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Catherine Horne. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

John Horn (son); Elizabeth Horner (?) (daughter-in-law)

Also left something

Nancy Catherine Horn (her three children); William Page Horn (her three children); Norflet Anderson Horn (her three children)

Executor

James N. Patterson

Witnesses

Jane Cole; Susannah (x) Rainey

Money and goods

$1

Reading note: Daughter-in-law Elizabeth Horner (?) questioned; compiler says Horner in will book.

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 227.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 208.
• 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).