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Her Will

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
January
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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New York, Jan. 13.- The will oi Emma Abbott Wetherell was ou Monday admitted to probate. It was executed May 28, 1890, at the Marlborough Hotel in this city. Miss Abbott begins her wíll with directions as to the disposal of her body. "I direct that my body," are her instructions, "having been first tested by electricity to ascertain if life is extinct, shall be cremated and the ashes resulting therefrom be deposited beside the remains of my beloved lmsband." She directs the executors to place on deposit 8100,000 in the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and from the income to pay S400 monthly to her father, Seth Abbott. A like sum is also to be placed in the United States Trust Company with directions to pay from that a like monthly income of $400 to her mother, Mrs. Almira M. Abbott. To León II. Abbott, George H. Abbott and Frank Abbott, brothers, she leaves 25,000 each; to Mrs. Lizzie Abbott Clark 825,000, and to the children of León and George II., and Mrs. Clark 85,000 eaeh. Closing her will Miss Abbott remembers various churches and charitable institutions. Her legacies to the churches she prefaces by stating that they are made to "churches that I have attended from time to time and where I have particularly enjoyed the music." These lejfacies are 85,000 each and to the following churches: Plymouth Church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Madison Avenue Baptist Church, Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Church of the liivine Paternity, Citadel Square Baptist Chureh, Charleston, S. C. ; Rose Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, New York; and St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church. The residue of her estáte is to be diyided share and share alike among the following: Foundling asylum of the Sisters of Charity, Children's Aid Society for the support of the newsboys' lodging house: Home of the. Friendless of Newark, N. J.; Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm; House of Mercy, in East Eorty-eighth street; St. John's Guild for Excursions for Mothcrs and Children in Summer; Hebrew Bencvolent Society; Sanitarium for Hebrew Children: Mrs. 8. V. White, of Brooklyn. and Mrs. Sarah Bird, a friend' of Mrs. White. She hopes these ladies will use their shares in charity. All of Miss Abbot's music, operatic scores and private papers are bequeathed to Alice Cafïerty, of .Jersey City, who also receives3.000. Her diamonds and jewelry are given to the executors with the direction that they be sold and the proceeds to form a part of the estáte. The will containsa forfeiture elause against eontestants.

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