Orange County Indexed
Will of Euphence B. Kerr
Will Book F, page 50 · dated 21 March 1839 · proved May 1840
Euphence Kerr named son Samuel and daughters Eliza Jane and Susan and appointed Samuel Kerr and James Whitsett executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Euphence B. Kerr (printed EUPHENCE B. KERR)
- Dated
- 21 March 1839
- Proved
- May 1840 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 26 March 1839. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Samuel Kerr (son); Eliza Jane Kerr (daughter; both under 18 ?); Susan Kerr (daughter; both under 18 ?)
- Executors
- Samuel Kerr (trusty friends); James Whitsett (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Austin Whitsett; John McJean ?
Reading note: Daughters both under 18 ? and witness John McJean ? questioned by Shields.
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 50.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 186.
- 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).
