Anders Family
David Asbel Anders with
grandson Jim and wife
Tina Smith Anders Family

US GenWeb Project

Rufus and Florence Hall Owen Family in 1947
Rufus and Florence Hall Owen and children

US GenWeb Archives Project

 

Transylvania County, NC GenWeb Project
"Digging Into The Genealogy of Our Ancestors"

NC GenWeb

 

Transylvania County Wills & Estate Records 

 

Transcribers:

Linda O. Anders
Philip Underwood-Sheppard
Transylvania County wills are located at the Clerk of Courts Office in Brevard, North Carolina.  "Will Book 1" isn't exactly.  This is a narrow folder with photocopied records from an unknown source provided by North Carolina State Archives.  Despite its odd appearance, it is indexed along with the more traditional will books. Finding it is difficult at best.  Sometimes you can find it on top of the cabinet holding the remainder of the older record books for the county.  Sometimes you can't find it.  Fortunately, the wills contained in it have been transcribed by Philip Underwood-Sheppard and are included here.  

Transylvania County estate records dating from 1810 to 1951 are located at North Carolina State archives.  An index is located at:  http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/FindingAids/Transylvania.htm .   When requesting estate records please include the name date, and the accession number that beings "C. R."

Follow a hyperlink on a document reference to see the document.  

 - Linda Hoxit Raxter, 10 May 2003

 

 

CLAYTON, John  28 MAR 1867 Will Book 1, pages 82-84
GALLOWAY, Mary Ann Whitmire 15 JUL 1919 Will Book 3, page 456
GALLOWAY, Thomas H. 12 DEC 1874 Will Book 1, pages 173-174
GALLOWAY, Thomas Harrison 07 SEP 1928 Will Book 3, pages 392-393
GALLOWAY, Washington E. "Wash" 02 DEC 1903 Will Book 2, pages 366-369
GLAZENER, George 08 AUG 1874 Will Book 1, pages 171-172
GLAZENER, Giles 18 JUL 1884 Will Book 2, pages 42 - 43
JORDAN, Hannah R.  09 OCT 1874 Will Book 1, pages 175-180
JORDAN, Joseph 24 OCT 1864 Will Book 1, pages 34-38
LYDAY, Adam 14 MAR 1872 Will Book 1, pages109-112
MCGAHA, James 11 SEP 1877 Will Book 1, pages 211-213
NICHOLSON, Mary 01 FEB 1896 Will Book 1 page 174 (Commissioner's Settlement) 
ORR, C. C. 18 APR 1863 Will Book 1, pages 30-40
ORR, George 23 OCT 1868 Will Book 1, pages 197-202
OWEN, Francis Marion 04 MAY 1917 Will Book 7, pages 129-130
PORTER, Gerald Lee 17 JAN 1873 Will Book 1, pages 146-148
RABB, John 12 JUN 1871 Will Book 1, pages 142-144
RIGDON, Cecile Simpson 27 JUN 1966 Will Book 7, pages 252-253
SITTON, James M. 01 JAN 1862 Will Book 1, pages 4-6
WARD, Joshua 29 NOV 1867 Will Book 1, pages 91-97
WHITMIRE, Christopher 17 JUN 1838 Will Book 2, pages 358-360
WHITMIRE, George W. 05 MAY 1877 Will Book 1, pages 205-206, 280
WHITMIRE, William bef. 31 DEC 1872 Will Book 1 pp 129-130 (Nuncupative Will) 

WILSON, Benjamin

01 NOV 1853 Will Book 2, pages 33-34
YOUNG, Joshua Milton 19 JUL 1875 Will Book 1, pages 161-162

 

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