The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-03
MRS. Wallis WILL.
The. Largest Bequsst $25, 900 is to Her
Daughter, Miss Ellen Vail

Daughter, Miss Ellen Vail.
No will that has been probated in
Shawnee county for many years is of as
much public importance, perhaps, as is
the one Of the late Mrs. Ellen L. Bowman
Vail that was filed for probate this week.
The property disposed Of by this will
viii reach a valuation of something IN
the region of 100000. and q good deal
of it is given to charitable objects in
which the worthy lady was so deeply in
terested.
The will bears the date of August 10,
1881 A great deal of the property of
course, was left to her husband, Right
Reverend Thomas III. Vail, in the enumer-
alton being $4,000 IN cash. all the house
hold goods not otherwise disposed of, all
Of the library Of both Mrs. Vail and her
father and a considerable quantity of
money in trust. But provisions were made
that in the event Of his death during her
life, other provisions be made for the
property left him. and as the matter now
stands large mum Der of people are in
terested-
The principal Iegatee is the deceased's
daughter, Ellen Sitgreaves Vail, the
principal bequest of $4,000 falling to
her with other property that would 9th
erwise have gone to the bishop had he
survived. She also gets the coal proper
ty in Wilkes barre, Pa, and her choice of
two hundred volumes from the libraries
Of the family.
To Bethany the VIII gives the sum of
$6,OUO in trust for the endowment of two
4 scholarships to be known as the Bishop
Bowman and the samuel Bowman
Vail" scholarships, the benefit of them
being extended preferably to daughters
of clergymen of the diocese of Kansas
Bethany also gets another 81, 500 to hold
in trust, the income from il to be paid to
Miss Mary B. jenkins of Burlingame,
Usage county. and in case Of her death
to be added to the Bethany endowments
made by the late bishop.
Since the bishops death the library,
excepting the 200 volumes already be
queathed, goes to the cathedral chapter
of the diocese of Kansas.
Other requests are as follows:
/ Thomas G. Vail, Israel e. Vail and the
children Of Mrs. Maria " Blackwell,
So 900 since the death of the bishop.
Mrs. Mary d. Coke of New York city,
$500.
Mrs. Sarah Draper of Wetmore, Kan,
$500
Harriet Hunt. a former teacher in
Bethany, $500.
Hiss Hannah K Franklin of Lancas-
ter. Pa, $500
Mrs. Wilhelmina NJ. Warner of Girard,
Mrs. Alice Cox, now of Bethany, $500.
Miss Mary Hood, now of Bethany, $500.
Rev Henry Colt of Concord, n. H,
50, 500 in trust, income to be paid to Mrs.
Anastasia f. Atwell, and at her death to
her daughter, Eleanor D., until she is
twenty-one, when she shall receive the
principal
Christ's hospital, the ten shares Of the
capital stock of company for erecting a
I bridge over the river Delaware at the
Borough of EastOn, in trust, the income
to be applied to the salary and support
/ Of the resident chaplain Of said hospital.
Also enough out Of the estate to bring
the fund up to $4,000
| The trustees of church property for
the diocese Of Kansas Protestant Epis-
cOpal) her share of the residuum of the
estate Of her uncle. I. r. Sitgreaves, to
/ be applied towards missionaries and the
building of churches and parsonages for
the colored people of the state diocese.
All property. not herein provided for,
including all silver, plate, iewelry and
watches, goes to the daughter, Miss
Ellen.
During her lifetime Mrs. Vail made il
her rule to give One-half of her income
to charity, and in bequeathing her daugh-
ter the amounts herein named she sug-
| gests to her that she also inherit the Gus
4 tom.
The witnesses to the will were Henry
c. Morrill, and T. J. Davis.
1 The executors named are her husband
and Rev. Henry Colt, but as one is dead
and the other does not live in the state,
the title Of Administrative legally falls to
the principal legatee, Miss Ellen Vail
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