Orange County Indexed
Will of Henry Foust
Will Book F, page 53 · dated 17 October 1839 · proved May 1840
Henry Foust named wife Caroline and sons Robert and William and appointed brother-in-law William M. Mebane executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Henry Foust (printed HENRY FOUST)
- Dated
- 17 October 1839
- Proved
- May 1840 court
- Family named
- Caroline R. Foust (wife); Robert M. Foust (son); William M. Foust (son); William M. Mebane (brother-in-law)
- Executor
- William M. Mebane (brother-in-law)
- Witnesses
- William Holt; Mich'l Wm. Holt
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 53.
- 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).
