Orange County Indexed
Will of Elzy Hopkins
Will Book F, page 260 · dated 30 April 1845 · proved May 1845
Elzy Hopkins left his estate to wife Sarah, mentioning unnamed children; John Ray and Benton Ray were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elzy Hopkins (printed ELZY HOPKINS)
- Dated
- 30 April 1845
- Proved
- May 1845 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); John Ray (my father-in-law)
- Executors
- John Ray (my father-in-law); Benton Ray (his son)
- Witnesses
- E. Strudwick; J. B. Leathers
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 260.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 212.
- 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).
