Will of Eli Woods

Eli Woods named wife Margaret, son John Washington, and five daughters and appointed Margaret Woods and Samuel Turrentine executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Eli Woods (printed ELI WOODS)

Dated

7 January 1840

Proved

February 1840 court

Family named

Margaret R. Woods (wife); John Washington Woods (son); Lucy Ann Woods (daughter); Ellen Woods (daughter); Margaret Ray Woods (daughter); Adaline Woods (daughter); Elizabeth Brown Woods (daughter)

Executors

Margaret R. Woods (wife); Samuel Turrentine

Witnesses

Hezekiah Terry; Charles Wilson

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 42.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 184.
• 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).