The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-17
ROOF IN THE COFFIN.
III MISSING LINK TO a GREAT
rozTUNE FOUND IN THE GRAVE.

4 ~ C%NO L~N 4 LIZ AAN = V l.
e.,=s,na RandalTs BODY Had Lain for
quarter of a Century on the Fam
az Eible-Its Contents Needed to
rz.abush the Right of Three People
20 100000.
From the Chicago Tribune
Mrs Sidney Hendricks of One Hundredth
..-sst and Terrence avenue has been mott
- that she has fallen heir TO $1,000, 900
I'm the estate Of an uncle long since de-
.s.si. A Tribune reporter, after much
,.borious travelling, discovered the resi-
..ncs of the two-fold millionaire yesterday.
living of 10 the West Of South Chicago
-5uorth of Cummings, half mile from
.rv other house, the coy little cottage
-,srs are nice ponds on all sides.
The place can be reached by land
o,lv via One Hundred and Fourth
street. on the south. All around that
,sybborhood meadow larks sing, robins
ni1e. frogs keep up q continual serenade,
TTassa and ducks float at lndolent ease, side
talks are bridges, and no resident Is counted
usU fixed unless he has a skIff chained to his
,r,nt door. The land, like a drunkard's
main. is too moist to be productive. No
bodv expects much of it. and no one is dis
snnointed. deliberately designed flower
ba1s were worked on high point near the
Hendricks home. and shade-trees added to
tbe air of content.
Mrs. Hendricks, pleasant-faced woman
tabout So years. of the earnest old Baptist
stripe of down-east yankees, greeted the
VISITOR pleasantly.
Yes, will no doubt have 100000
within year." she said calmly. sit will
come from the estate of my uncle, my
mothers brother, Isaac Phillips of Easton,
Mass.
The story of our tracing out our rights
70 the estate has some peculiar features. The
state is valued at S6,0O0,0 900, and will be
a1uallv divided between myself and my two
brothers, William T. Carroll, a manufact-
urer of patented articles at Worcester,
| Mass, and Daniel w. Carroll, a mAchinist
Of Canton, Mass.
BIT OF FAMILY HISTORY.
Isaac Phillips, from whom the great
estate decends, was born May 2, 1866, at the
homestead of all our people at Easton, Mass.
His father was Deacon Ebenezer Phillips,
piousBaptist. Isaac married Rachel Hayden
March Is, 1885. They had one child and the
parents separated. The mother and child
the slave trade and accumulated an enorm-
Gus fortune. Of this he deposited the cash
in the Manhattan bank of New York city
and invested the remainder in land at Long
Branch, in Holeston, S. c., aud in houses
and lots in Baltimore. The cash now in the
Manhattan Bank aggregates IS, 900, COZ.
Isaac Phillips died in 1884.
In187l the descendants of Phillips began
the search for the facts which would enable
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It was learned from an official at St.
Stephens, Washington county, Ala, that
81 Isaac Phillips, wealthy man from the
north, with heavy investments in the south,
had died there in 1884, leaving an estate
which was held by person believed to have
very imperfect title to it. Application
was made to the surrogate court of New
York to compel the ManhattanBank to show
cause why it should not disclose all facts rel
alive to a deposit of money made by Isaac
Phillips. The court held that the demand
need not be answered until those making it
should furnish exact information as to the
time AID place of death of Phillips. They
had no means of doing it and the matter
dropped. Nothing grew out Of it up to that
time except that thousands of Phillipses
from all parts Of the country fled claims in
the case, and all were ruled out except my
self and my brothers
"At loss what to do next some one sug-
gasted that it would be we'll to secure an
authentic record of the birth of Isaac Phil
lips and of his relatives whose descendants
would be entitled to share III the estate when
il was secured.
THE BIBLE AS A COFFIN PILLOW.
THE question arose as to WHIST had be-
come of the old family Bible. Deacon Phil
lips, good old Baptist that he was, surely
had one and no doubt followed the old
fashioned custom of keeping in it family
record of births aud deaths. 1t was recalled
that his son Jacob had inherited this Bible
that it was considered very fine one in its
day and had been sacredly preserved as an
heirloom. 1t was remembered that Jacob
was killed by a fall July II, 1912; that his
widow was dead; that the Bible had been
left with touching message by his
widow on her deathbed to their daughter
Susanna; that Susanna became the
second wise of Macy Randall. and that she
died June f. 1866. 1t was recalled that the
old family Bible became sa endeared to her
that on her death>bed she made the earnest
request that it should be placed under her
head as pillow in her coffin; that her
strange request was acceded to, and that it
was buried with her in the Washington
street cemetery at Easton. Permission was
obtained of the selectmeD few DAYS ago to
r
found there. 1t was somewhat decaysd,
but the family records were clear and
legible.
"Fhe Bible is now lin the possession of
Louis Randall. Thus the missing link in
our evidence was recovered. Attorneys
have been employed, and the best legal
counsel in the country say the fortune is
ours and we will readily secure it. That is
the story
"W hat do you intend doing with all that
money!
20, l don't know yet. You see we are
not wealthy people, although we are in
comfortable circumstances. | think we
will first travel for a year or two and see
the world
And then settle in Chicago" suggested
the husband. That's the hveliest and best
city in the world"
MRS. HENDRICKS DOES THE TALKING.
Not the best, Sidney" she quickly re-
ttorted. I'VE came to Chicago in 1853. My
husband worked sixteen years for the firm
OF X. NJ. q o. S. Hough, the elevator men.
we were there during the fire. We were not
burned out, but we were scared out. We
moved from Chicago fourteen years ago out
here to be by ourselves. but Chicago is
reaching round u.s."
gu have childrenp
Yes; two-Charles S. and Belle. She is
10 years old and unmarried. He is 30, mar
Fled, aud has two small children. We will
not stay here very long after l get that
money I'll do Soma nOOd with