Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-29
BEAUTIFUL MRS. GAINES.


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York.
This morning there was filed In the
Office OF the surrogate will purportlng
to be that of AIyra Clark Games, who
some years ago won worldwide fame by
her suits against the state OF Louisiana 10
recover portions of the city OF New or
leans The document was given 60 Clerk
voorhees, by Counselor William II
wilder OF New Orleans, who saws that
Mrs. Gaines, though living In that city,
was a resident OF Kings county.
In 1886 Mgra Clark Gaines became
celebrated through her suits against
individuals, residents OF New Orleans.
and against the city OF New Orleans, TO
recover property which she alleged had
been bequeathed to her by her father,
| Daniel Clark. Mrs. Gaines was re.
markedly persistent woman, with beau.
tiiul face and engaging manners. She
fought her claims for nearly halfa century,
going through the Louisiana courts and
up to the supreme court of the United
States seven times. Mrs. Gaines father,
Daniel CLARK, died on August lG 1918.
On July ~ OF that year he made will by
which he declared Myra Clark Gaines to
be his Legitimate and only daughter and
faA"NN ANA liz NNAN ANlls0 tNthINu WIS HlWtlN
FOR his VIII after death, but II had been
mislaid and could not be found Myra
was then n minor, residing with Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel q. Davis, TO whose
care her father had intrusted her. The
executors by previous will made In
| l64l, had sold considerable OF Mr.,
Clark's estate, and Mrs. Gaines began
suit 70 recover this property, and In 1896
sued the city Of New Orleans on the
ground that the Will OF 1873, which had
been found ut last, revoked the will OF
| 1871. The mother OF Mrs. Gaines was
Lullme Calrleve, a Creole, and the de-
PENDANT 10 the suits alleged that she was
not married TO Mr.. Clark. Mrs. Gaines
was then the wife Of Gen. Gaines, vet
eran OF the war OF 1879, who rendered
her great services In the struggle to re-
cover her fathers lands. Mrs Gaines
claimed that Daniel Clark and zulime
J Carrieve were married at Philadelphia In
In 1902 or 1903. Then the defendants set
| up that the marriage was unlawful, as
| Iullme had previously become the wife Of
jerome Des Grange, OF New Orleans.
Mrs. Gaines parted this thrust by PROV
Ing that Des Grange had another wife liy-
Ing whom he married Zullmo, and that the
latter's marriage with him was Invalid
ana her marriage to Clark legal The
Derseyeripg woman was at last successful
IN her litigation, the supreme court Of the
United States In 1881 holding that she
had been unlawiully deprived of her
property and that she was entitled to ST.
926, O6I 81 additional damages Mrs.
Gaines died January ., 1885, leaving Ave
Wills, and the chances are that contest
will be commenced In this county. The
Will offered for probate this morning ia
written on foolscap In purple Ink and by
much handling Is much solled.
1t says that the decedent lived In the
state OF Louisiana, parish OF Orleans, but
was citizen OF the state OF New York,
temporarily residing at 100 Thalia street,
In the city Of New Orleans. To Mrs.
Virginia Ii Davis, the testator gives
property In the parish Of st. Landry,
about 200 acresi to her daughter-in-law,
Hattie l.. Hall Whitney, widow OF VIII
liam Wallace Whitney, and 10 her soB.ln.
law, James Y Christmas, husband OF
Rhoda Whitney Christmas, deceased,
Sl0e, 900 each to their children,
who, Mrs. Gaines declares, we're
born In wedlock, she bequeatbs her
estate, real and personals 10 Edmund
Pendleton Gaines, son OF Mai.-Gen Ed
mund j. Gaines, her second husband
$4,000; TO George w. BENSON, of Ma
riette, Ga, her friend, Sl0,0O0i 10 the
Rev. John w Hartman, OF Mississippi,
sl0,000i to Myra Clark Gaines Mazerat,
10000.
The testator appointed william II.
Wilder and James Y. Christmas OF Wash
ngton her executors without bonds. The
viii Ii signed by cross, aud note at.
tached says Mrs. Gaines was very weak
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