Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Coble
Will Book F, page 240 · dated 20 July 1844 · proved February 1845
John Coble named wife Catherine, sons, daughters, and Warner Cardin and appointed Benjamin Coble and George Tickle executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Coble (printed JOHN (x) COBLE)
- Dated
- 20 July 1844
- Proved
- February 1845 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as John Cable. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); Benjamin Coble (youngest son); John (oldest son); Phillip (second son); Barbary Wirick ? (daughter); Elizabeth Tickle (daughter); Sarah Wirick ? (daughter)
- Also left something
- Warner Cardin (if he stays and works with family until he is twenty-one)
- Executors
- Benjamin Coble (son); George Tickle
- Witnesses
- Adam (x) Strader; Lewis Lowe ?; Archibald Murphy
Reading note: Shields questions Barbary Wirick ?, Sarah Wirick ?, Lewis Lowe ?. Last witness line has an overtyped correction Archibald Murphy.
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 240.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 209.
- 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).
