Gov. Felch's Will
The last will aud testament of the late ex-Governor Alpheus Feloh has been flled for probate in the probate office of this county. The instrument is in his handwriting aud was executed by him, May 9, 1896, and the witnesses are John V. Sheehan and W. D. Harrimau. The will coutains 14 clauses and after providing that all his just debts be paid as soon as possible after hia decease, he wills to his eight graudchildreu L500 eaoh and to his two great grandchildren $200 each. To his sous-iu-law, Claudius B. Grant and Charles G. Jennings and to his daughter-iu-hiw, Mrs. Hettie C. Feloh, he gires $500 each. The seveuth clause bequeaths to the regents of the University his eutire library of books, excepting school booka and suoh volumes as are usually kept on the tables in the different rooms of the house, also all the periodicals, pamphlets and newspapers belongiug to him, together with the book cases and boxes in wbich they are kept. To the Ladies' Library Associatiou he gives $300 to be expended in books for its library. To his danghter, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Cole, he gives the use and occupation of the homestead on N. State st. for ber natural life, also his share of the proceeds of the Benham farm, which ia worked on shares for him so long as the present lease runs. He also gives her all the household furniture and other effects in the honse with the esception that each member of the family is to be allowed to select some one piece of ornament as a memento of their mother. The rest of his estáte is to be divided equally between his five children, share and share alike, who are also uained as the executors of the will. It is a remarkably plain will, written in the simplest lauguage and free from all perplexiDg legal phraseology. He sent it to Jude Babbitt for safe keeping, May 15, 1896, and it has been in the probate office siuce that time.
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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News
Alpheus Felch