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Orange County Indexed

Will of Catlett Campbell

Will Book F, pages 245–247 · dated 11 January 1845 · proved February 1845

Catlett Campbell named sisters and nephew James Burke of Virginia and appointed James Burke and three friends executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Catlett Campbell (printed CATLETT CAMPBELL)
Dated
11 January 1845
Proved
February 1845 court
Family named
Mary Ann Burke (my sister; deceased); Nancy Marbury ? (sister); Sally Turner (sister); Permelia Waugh (sister); Judy McGinnis (sister); James Burke (nephew; of Alleghany County, Va.)
Executors
James Burke (nephew); John U. Kirkland (friends); Osmond F. Long (friends); John W. Norwood (friends)
Witnesses
Jas C. Norwood; Thos N. Burke; Wm. Ward
Places
Virginia; Alleghany County, Va.

Reading note: Shields questions Nancy Marbury ?.

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, pages 245–247.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 210.
  • 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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