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Orange County Indexed

Will of Sarah Montgomery

Will Book F, page 233 · dated 20 August 1844 · proved November 1844

Sarah Montgomery named mother Elizabeth, four youngest children, and other unnamed children and appointed son Daniel A. Montgomery executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Sarah Montgomery (printed SARAH MONTGOMERY)
Dated
20 August 1844
Proved
November 1844 court
Family named
Daniel A. Montgomery (son); Harriett (my four youngest children); Cornelia (my four youngest children); Barbary (my four youngest children); William (my four youngest children); Elizabeth Albright (mother)
Executor
Daniel A. Montgomery (son)
Witnesses
James B. Montgomery; Hiram Whitsell

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 233.
  • 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).
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