The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-02
ABIA,g TENNESSEE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. i
Dickens VILE.


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~ Gnaries Dickens, OF Gae,shii!
place. dlgnam, IN tine county or Kent
neieoy revoke all my f0fmef wits anC
coGiciis, ana declare TINS 20 De my las
Wni ana testament. give Ine sum o.
tl,@ free of legacy DUTY fo Miss Ell
len LaW4ess Ternan, late OF Houghton.
PAGE Ampthllt square, IN the county
OF gNldQiesex. 4 give the sum, OF III
gulneas TO my mlthful Old servant, Mrs.
Anne Corneiius i give the sum OF l9
gQineas to the daughter and only child
OF tne sald Mrs. Anne Cornelius. !
give tne sum OF ~ guinies 20 eacn and
every domestlc servant, male ana fe.
maie, VINO snail De IN my employment
at the time OF my decease, ana shal!
nave been IN my employment Tor not
less period OF time than one year. l
give the sum OF Fl ,OOO, tree Of legacy
DUTY, TO nay daughter, Mary Dickens.
= l also give TO my said daughter, Mary,
an annuity OF f3OO year during her
llfe, II she shall continue 80 long un.
married, sucn annuIty 10 De considered
as accrulng rom day TO day, but to he
Payabie nalr yearly, the nrst Of such
nai-yearly payments to be made at the
expiration OF SIX months next after my
'decease. III my SAID daughter Mary
snail marry, such annuity shall cease,
ana III that case, but IN that ease only,
my sald daughter snail snare with my
Othe children in the provision herein
after made for them. give TO my
dear sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth,
the sum OF fS,OU, free OF legacy duty.
also give the said GeOrgina Hogarth
all my personal Jewely not hereinafter
mentloned, and all the little familiar
o9)ects rom my Writing-table and my
room, and she will know what to DO
WIN those Things. also give to the
said Georgina Hogarth all my private
papers whatsoever and wheresoever and
l leave her my grateful blessing, as the
pest ana truest friend man ever had. L
give to my eldest son Charles my IL
brary OF printed books and my engrav-
lngs and prints. l also give TO my said
son charles the silver salver presented
TO me at birmingham, and the silver
cup presented to me at Edinburg, and
my SHIRT STUDS, shirt pins and sleeve
button; ana bequeath unto my said
son Charles and my son Henry Field
ing Dickens the sum of 9S,0OO upon
trust to invest the same, and from time
to time to vary the investments there
OF, and to pay the annual income there
of to my wife during her life, and after
her decease the said sum of ES, ,OV0 and
the Investment thereof shall be in trust
for my children (but subject as to my
daughter Mary to the provisO hereinto-
sons, shall have attained or shall at
tain the age. of Il years, or being a
daughter or daughters, shall have at
tained or shall attain that age, or be
previously married, in equal shares if
more than one. give my watch the
gold repeater presented to me at Con-
ventry), and 1 give the chains and
seals, and all appendages have worn
with 1t to my dear and trusty friend
John Foster, of Palacegate-hOuse, Ken
singtOn, in the county. of Middlesex
aforesaid. And L also give to the said
John Foster such manuscripts of my
published works as may be in my pos
session at the time of my decease. And
devise and bequeath all my real and
personal estate except such as vested
IN me as a trustee or mortgagee) unto
the said Georgina Hogarth and the said
John Forster, their heirs, executors, adj
ministrators and assigns respectively,
upon trust, that they, the said Georgi-
ma H0garth and John Forster, or the
survivor OF them, or the executors or
administrators OF sucn survivor, 40 and
shall at their, hrs or her uncontrolled
ana irresponsible direction, either pro-
ceed toanammedaate sale or conversion
into money OF the SAID real and person.
al estate 1ncludlng my cOpyrlgfHs), or
defer ana postpone any sale or CONVEX
sion into money till such time OF times
as they, he or she shall thing mt, and
IN the meantime may manage and let
the said real and personal estate in
Guiding my copyrlghts) IN such man.
ners Ill all respects as myseiI could do
II were living and acting therein, 1t
being my intention that the trustees or
trustee f0r the time being OF TINS my
Will snail nave the fullest power over
the said real and personal estate which
l can give to them, him, or her. And
declare that until the said real and
personal estate shall be sold and con-
verted into money, the rents and an
nual income thereof respectively shall
be PAID and applied to the person or
persons in the manner and for the pur-
poses to whom and for which the an
nual income of the moneys to arise
from the sale or conversion thereof i'll
to money would be payable or applica-
bly, under this my will, in case the
same were sold or converted into mOH-.
ey; and | declare that my real estate
shall, for the purpose of this my will,
be considered as converted into person.
ality upon my decease; and declare
that the said trustees or trustee for the
time being do and shall, with and out
Of the moneys which shall come to
their, his, or her hands, under or by
virtue of this my will, and the trusts
thereof, pay my just debts, funeral and
expense, and legacies.
And l declare that the said trust funds,
Or SO much thereof as shall remain af-
ter answering the purposes aforesaid,
and the annual income thereof shall
be in trust for all of my children but
subject, as to my daughter Mary, to
the proviso hereinbefore ,contained),
who, being a son or sons, shall have at
tanned or shall attain the age of y
years, and, being daughter or daugh-
ters, shall have attained or shall attain
that age, or he previously married i'm
equal shares, if more than One-provi-
led always that, a. regards my copy