New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-13
MISS EMMA ABBOTTrS WILL
MUCH MONEY LEFT FOR CHARITY.
REQUESTS FOR HER RELATIVES AND FOR A
NUMBER OF CHURCHES AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS.

INSTITUTIONS.
The will of Mrs. Emma Abbott WctheTcl was filed
for probate yesterday anu admitted Immediately 10
probate as there was no opposition. The document
was executed on May -. 1890 The first clause
directs that her body Shall be crcmated after 1t has
been tested with electric current to see whether on
not life is extinct. 4 large number of charitable
requests are made after the members of her family
have been literally provided for The residue of her
estate is divided ZIP, after number of specific bcPue>ts
are made among number of charitable institutions
and churches. There has been great deal said about
how much the residue OF the estate would amount 10.
Her property has been said 10 be worth from S1ooooO
to ~. 600 OOO but it j. believed that Sl.OOOOOO Is
about the right figure. II that amount Is correct the
resduary leCatreS will each get good round sum.
The executors named James l.. Mitchell. Vas
IIought0n and William +. Dunnng. The tcStator
directs that sum sufficient produce an income Of
300 a month be deposited with the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company for her father, seth Abbott. and
the Of $780, 900 is TO be deposited with Inc United
states Trust Company, the income of which l. to be
paid 10 her mother Almila NJ Abbott. Martha I"
Wethcrcll her mothcr-in-law. receive, $4,000 alb
sOutely. The tcsatOr's brothers. Leon il. George IL
and Frederick Abbott and her sister Mrs. Lizzie Abbott
Clark. receive $4,000 each absolutely. The children
Of Leon II. and George H. Abbott, and the children al
Mrs Eta Clark, the dead sister of her husband, caoh
receive $1,000 a. do also the children OF NJ. J.. Wcih
eien V. IIoughton receives 10000, aud ID. \. Con
sabine. the tcstatOr's private secretary, $1,000.
The following churches which Mr.. Nctherell saws
in her will she took pleasure in &C "a, 1nally attend
ing receive $1,000 each The CONGREGATIONAL Church
Of Gloucester, Mass: Plymouth Church of BROOKLYN (.
the Brooklyn Tabernacle the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church. at Thirty frsSt. the Fourth Avenue PresbS
terrain Church. at Twenty secondst the Church of the
Divine Paternity at Fortyffthst. and Flftiave' the
Citadel square Baptist Church Of Charleston. = c.
the Rose Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. at Twenty
second-st and Thrdave.. and IT. Luke's Methodist
Episcopal Church. in Fortyfrst-st.. near broadway
The residue be divided equally among the fol
lowing institutions The New York Founding A-y
mm OF the Sister, of Charity the CbldTens Am SOL
| ETY. AT Duane and New Chambers st,. the Home fr
| the Frendless. Newark. y. j.. the Chaplin Home
for the Aged and Infrm the House OF Merry, at the
foot of Eighty sixth It. Johns Guild for EXclfSlOI
for Mothers and Children in summer; the Hebrew
Benevolent Society. and the S1nitarum for Hebrew
Children Mrs. V White OF Brooklyn, and Mrs
sarah Bird friend Of Mr.. White, also named
resduary legatees They each receive the amount
that each one Of the charitable institutions receives
The testator expresses the hope that the two LAT men
toned benenciaricS will the money which Is be
queathed to them for charitable purposes