Orange County Indexed
Will of Lysias Durham
Will Book F, page 3 · dated 5 September 1837 · proved February 1838
Lysias Durham named three daughters and three sons and appointed Wilson Atwater and Manly Snipes executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lysias Durham (printed LYSIAS DURHAM)
- Dated
- 5 September 1837
- Proved
- February 1838 court
- Family named
- David (son); Dudley (son); Tarleton (son); Tabitha Gear (daughter); Susannah L. (daughter); Mary Jane (daughter; a minor)
- Executors
- Wilson Atwater (friends); Manly Snipes (friends)
- Witnesses
- R. C. Poe; Antho. Durham
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 3.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 178.
- 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).
