New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-30
MRS. JEROME'S WILL.
SHE DIsINHERITs HER SON LAWRENCE
ROSCOE.
MOST PROPERTY LEFT TO HER SONS JUDGE
WILLIAM TRAvERs JEROME AND
LOWELL. HALL JEROME AND


THE LATTER's WIFE.
The will OF Mrs Katharine Hall Jerome. mother
OF Judge w. Travers jerome and aunt Of Lady Ran
uoiph Churchill filed for probate yesterday In
the office OF the Surrogate The will IL dated Octo-
Der 22, 1884, and two codcils filed with it dated
Aprl 70, lSs. and November T. 1885, respectively
BY her will Mrs. Jerome leaves to her niece Mar
garet Middleton. 81 eco: her faithful servants.
William Young and Bridget Collins. 500 each She
appoints Daniel Mason her sole executor and be-
queathes to him In trust for her friend Eliza A.
Lamsop the sum OF 81 $50 This bequest is revoked
by the second codicil TO the will
The residue Of the real and personal property.
which are estimated at s4b 900 and $4,000 respect
lively she directs be divided into two equal
shares, one of which is to he paid to her Will
lam Travers Jerome and the other to be invested
ana the income paid In equal shares to her son
Lowell Hall Jerome and his wife. Should he survive
his wife he Is 10 receive the income during his life.
IL ne leaves his wife and issue survives him. she Is
to receive the income OF the trust fund during her
life. and her death the principal Of the fund is
TO be paid 10 her children If his wife survives him.
but no children she is TO receive the income of the
fund during her life so long as she shall remain
unmarried. Should she remarry. upon her
death, the principal is be paid to William Travers
jerome.
Mrs Jerome cuts off her Lawrence Roscoe
Jerome In the following words
II expressly declare II to be my intent to disin-
her son Lawrence Roscoe Jerome on account
of his unfilial conduct"
BY the first codcil quantity of the furniture.
china pictures. jewelry and brc-A-bTac belonging
to Mrs. jerome left to her sons Lowell II.
jerome and William Travers Jerome.
To her grandson William Trayers Jerome ir. she
leaves the picture of the home OF his grandfather
at ato Williamstown Mass the picture Of the tomb
stone OF his grandfather and grandmother jerome
at Palmyra, y. Y; the OF arms OF the Hall
f,nmy his srandfaher Jeromes family papers two
little oval pictures which have hung in his grand
mother Jeromes room since her marriage: a
picture % GlasslOugh House the residence of Sir
John Leslie: picture of his uncle Lowell being ex-
changed FOR Chief Joseph; picture of her niece
Lady Randolph Churchill; deer's horn which the
Duke of Beaufort gave Lady Randolph Churchilrs
grandfather Jerome when he visited him at his
home in Badminton, and number of family heir
looms. In case her grandson shall die before he
reaches the age of twenty ive these articles to
go TO her son, William Travers jerome.
The second codicil revokes the Request to Eliza a
Lamson. and provides that in the case OF the death
OF the testator before her niece Fannie Lee Hall
shall have completed two years course of study
al the Teachers College of the Columbia University
sufficient sum shall be set aside from her property
10 pay for her nieces tuition and also 10 pay Sl2
week for her board
The pictures bequea he'd to her children include
many works of old masters