Evening star., 1903-08-03
GEN. C. M. CLAY'S WILLS.
Dora Clay Brock Says She Has Found
Latest One

A dispatch from Lexington. KY, yester-
day says: Another will of Gen. Cassius NJ
Clay, executed March 2S 1901. a year after
the one to be offered for probate tomor-
row in Richmond. has been produced by
Dora Clay Brock. the former child wife of
Gen. Clay. according to an account in the
Herald of this city
The instrument is said to be in Gen
Clays own handwriting and sealed on the
back with his private seal ring in green
wax. The will appoints Dora Brock. his
former wife. and two others selected by
her. as executors and gives them one haIf
of the proceeds of certain sales Section 4
reads:
The White Hall lands and fixtures Of
36o acres Shall remain. including houses
trees. etc. forever the same intact. the
finest natural park on earth 1t shall be
in fee simple the property of the United
States of America In trust for the inhabit-
ants of the earth. 1t shall be so long
under the care OF my executors as may
be deemed best by the federal government,
and them be under its direction and SUPPORT
In the purposes of this legator
Section 4. My coal mines in Clay county.
Ky. bought of Eli Bowlin near ManChes-
ter. about 800 acres more or less shall be
formed into company and worked for the
use and benefit Of the funds and needs Of
the White Hall Park and to pay all lega-
cies, debts here enjoined. Three hundred
and sixty acres of my son. Green Clay de-
ceased, where my late divorced wife Mary
Jane w. Clay. lived in Madison county.
Ky. shall be sold and the proceeds go into
the White Hall Park reserve fund. An
other lands shall be sold for the same fund
or given to the legateee as ordered herein ;"
Sections 8. g. and give Dora Brock
$1,000 in bonds and make bequests to
James Bowiin and other employees All
other property personal and real, goes into
the White Hall Park reserve fund.
Sectien 8 reads:
"Of the works of art In my house, the
portraits Of the Emperor and Empress of
Russia given me by their majesties with
their autographs and seals, and the like
ness OF my son. Warfield Clay shall re-
main, and such other things not then dis
posed of shall remain there forever The
bust of this legator IN marble on Verde
antique marble stand wherever found by
the great sculptor. Joel Todd Hart. shall
De placed In the Corcoran Gallery at Wash
| ington, or other gallery. the executors
elect.
Section 10. My manuscripts. Ave vol
umes or more OF my memoirs the material
FOR icarus. written by this legator. shall
! be given TO the association of America n
Authors in New York of which | am an
honorary member Tor publication and copy
right. one-half of the proceeds to go to
my former wife Dora and the other half
| to the society forever. In the event of her
death before publication of said book lea
| rus. the child of said Dora, Cassius Mar
cellus c. Brock. forever"
The other will dated May H. 1870. will
be probated tomorrow and II was for her
protection in that will that Dora Brock re-
tained j. NJ. Norwood to whom she told
that she had an unopened envelope that
Gen. Clay gave her with the admonition
that II was TO be kept until after his death
II turned out TO be the last will. Col.
James Scott has since been retained to
| assist Mr.. Norwood.