The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-27
CUT HIM OFF WITH A SHILLING.
MRS. $. C. PARSONS LEAVES HER
HUSBAND THE SIN OF So.

HUSBAND THE sim OF So.
Her Estate Estimated TO De Worth
Anywhere From 100000 to $780,
OuO-The Bulk of II VIII Go 10
Niece who Lives in San Francisco.
Several small Requests Left 10
othcrS-The Executors Qualify as
Temporary Administrators, and
Have Placed Guard in Charge of
the Personal Property.
The will of Mrs. Sarah NJ. Parsons, who
died in San Francisco, Cal, at the home
of relatives, where she was visiting, on
Wednesday. Dec. Is, was received in Sa-
vannah yesterday for record and probate
in the court of ordinary
Mrs. Parsons will bids fair to become
as famous as DR.. Nelson's. 1t is the tes-
lament of a rather eccentric woman, as
it's provisions might indicate to some eX-
tent, and it was drawn Sept "a at San
Francisco Just few months before her
death.
The document will be of interest here,
because Mrs. Parsons home was in Sa-
vannah and she was so well known here
Perhaps the most peculiar feature Of the
document is the fact that the testatrX
cuts her husband off with s., out of an
estate which is estimated to be worth
anywhere from S6O.0oO to 100000 and the
bulk of which she leaves to her niece,
Elizabeth Katherine Mas of San Fran
cisco
Mrs. Parsons was about 50 years old
at the time her will was drawn. Practl-
cally its first provision was that her pody
should be cremated and buried alongside
that of her sister Mary Bella Mas, IN
the Odd Fellows cemetery IN the city ana
county of San Francisco. A simple grave
stone is all that she desires placed over
it, and her funeral expenses and the eX-
penses of her last illness are to be PAID at
once.
The will then enumerates sevral be-
quests, the first of which is TO Or. T.. d.
Mass OF San Francisco, to whom she gives
$500 for services rendered her IN neT lasl
illness; to DR.. w. Il. Mays of san Fran
cisco she also leaves $3.50 for similar SCI "
ices; to her friend, G. II. Rembold OF san
Francisco, she leaves $500 as a gilt; TO
William Taylor, clerk in 'Ilnmans druB
store, in Savannah she leaves S5OJ loI
services rendered during the cyclone
which visited savannah.
To her sisters, Mrs. Charles w. Bartlett
and Mrs. DR.. David Webster of the city
of New York, she leaves similar requests
10 that left her husband s. each, ana
after enumerating these simple bequests
she provides that they be paid from the
sale of her personal effects, which are at
present in the supper stories OF the build
ing now occupied by DR.. $. G. Parson 5
drug store, al Liberty and Price streets
The executors named by Mrs. Parsons
are DIR. r. b. Harris Messrs. John 9.
Butler and r. H. Tatem. They are di-
rected to dispose of her real estate as
well as her personal property. The prop
erty enumerated consists of lot No. o,
Troup ward situated right next to ana
west Of the lot upon which the drug store
stands, at Liberty ana Price streets, two
lots on Tybee Island, and two lots in the
town of New Utrecht, N. Y, just outside
of Brooklyn. Her will says nothing about
the lot and the building occupied by the
drug store, as this property was dlsposeu
of some time ago by a trust deed, now
recorded in the superior court under
which Miss Mas is to receive half the in
come from the property until she is 70
years of age, then the whole income UNI
I'll she is 80 years old, at which time the
property is to go to her in fee simple.
There are other requests of some of her
oil painting, called Winter Scene in Dem
mark" which is. given to DR.; r. B. Har-
TO Mr.. r. ii. Tatem and her music stand
TO Mrs r. II. Tatem Her plain gold we'd
her hers husband b Dr.. s. &. Parsons "a and nd he
is allowed TO retain what Office furniture
he moved away and took TO Atlanta. Her
India shaw she bequeaths to Mrs; Col;
TO William Taylor, the clerk in Tinmans
drug store mentioned above, she leaves
also all OF the cut glass drug bottles now
IN DR.. 3, &. Parsons drug store which
will no doubt somewhat deplete the drug
stores stock. The proceeds from the real
estate and anything else left after the be-
quests above are provided for, are all to
20 TO her niece, Elizabeth Katherine
Mas of San Francisco.
As the will was witnessed in San Fran
cisco II will no doubt be some little time
before ii can be prohated. and before the
executors can qualify. Then there will
no doubt come a caveat, perhaps two or
three of them. An estate such as this dis
posed of in the manner stated, will hard
~ be allowed TO pass through the courts
without some sort of fight being made
on IT, and the contest viii no doubt be a
long drawn out and interesting one.
Under the circumstances the gentlemen
named as eecutors OF the will, when II was
received yesterday. deemed ii best 10 take
steps at once for the pro lection OF the prop
erty. Until II had been lawfully placed in
their hands they could do nothing. Mr.. r.
X. Richards was retained by them, and
last night Messrs. r. IA. Tatem and J. G..
Butler went TO the court of ordinary
where they took out temporary letters of
compensation on the estate and gave
bond In that capacity.
This step gave them full charge of the
property and they at once took steps for
IT'S protection, especially for the protection
pr the personal property which r. in the
upper story OF the drug store building. The
Keys to the building are now IN San Fran
cisco, having been carried there by Mrs
Parsons, so the temporary administrator
had the door opened by GOLDSMITH and
placed q Waterman In charge This will
have TO be done until they qualify as exec
utors, after which ARRANGEMENTS will be
made to carry out as soon as possible the
terms of the bequost
Why Mrs Parsons cut her husband off
with q shilling so to speak. Is a matter
which will undoubtedly excite much Gu
liosity. SO far as was known i'm Savannah
they have not been on bad terms and 1t
remains TO be seen what will be said in
court when the fight is on.
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