Orange County Indexed
Will of Joanna Farthing
Will Book F, page 25 · dated 30 May 1839 · proved August 1839
Joanna Farthing named five sons and daughter Nancy Watkins Farthing and appointed William and Abner Farthing executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joanna Farthing (printed JOANNA FARTHING)
- Dated
- 30 May 1839
- Proved
- August 1839 court
- Family named
- Reuben Farthing (widow of); Hargis Farthing (son); Thomas Farthing (son); John Farthing (son); William Farthing (son); Abner Farthing (son); Nancy Watkins Farthing (daughter)
- Executors
- William Farthing; Abner Farthing
- Witnesses
- Harris Wilkerson; I. Gooch
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 25.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 182.
- 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).
