Will of Delilah Rhodes

Delilah Rhodes named Zachariah Rhodes’s children, other beneficiaries, and William Rhodes’s children.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Delilah Rhodes (printed DELILAH RHODES)

Dated

18 December 1837

Proved

February 1838 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 18 November 1838. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Zachariah Rhodes (son); William Rhodes (son); Sarah Hutchins (child); George W. Rhodes (child); Dicey Rhodes (child); Caroline Jane Rhodes (child); Penney Patteshall (child); Mary Hurley (child); Delilah Patteshall (child); Milley Smith (child); Lowry Jane (three children of Son Zachariah Rhodes); Cozby Ann (three children of Son Zachariah Rhodes); Claudeus Jasper (three children of Son Zachariah Rhodes)

Witnesses

Samuel Couch; Wm. Trice, Jr.

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 6.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 179.
• 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).