Orange County Indexed
Will of Eleanor Hopkins
Will Book F, page 51 · dated 26 February 1840 · proved May 1840
Eleanor Hopkins named son Gilbert and daughters Bashaba and Mary, whom she appointed executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Eleanor Hopkins (printed ELEANOR HOPKINS)
- Dated
- 26 February 1840
- Proved
- May 1840 court
- Family named
- Gilbert (son); Bashaba (daughter); Mary (daughter)
- Executors
- Bashaba (two daughters); Mary (two daughters)
- Witnesses
- Nathaniel Harris; Oxford Moize
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 51.
- 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).
