Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-02-14
MRS. yzEiGgs WILL.
(Natehez Democrat, Feb. ~

In the Chancery Court yester-
day the last will and testament
Of the late Mrs. Ellen Maria
Yznaca was admitted to probate,
aud duly proven by Mr.. A. g
Cambell, president of the First
Natehez. Bank, and Mr.. Richard |
F. Reed, counsel for the testatrix.
The instrument is Photographic, |
and bears date of January Is,
1908. 1t was written by Mrs.
Yznaga at the beginning of her
last illness, when she seemed to
have premonltion of death, but
the handwriting is firm. the die
ton characteristic in its clear
ness, and the requests made IN
language as lucid and unmistak-
able as could have been employed
by any lawyer.
| Tt is declared that such sums of
money as are entered in the books
lof Edward c.. Rhodes have been
used for the exclusive benefit of
the testatrix to provide her with
food and clothing and to enable
her to support certain faithful
servants. Mr.. Rhodes is made sole
executor, without bond or any
further obligation.
1t is stated that her daughter,
Natica, has the conveyances to
the property in Chattanooga; to
this daughter diamond necklace
4 is bequeathed.
To Emily Yznaga, who had heen
given the title to property IN
Memphis, other diamond orna-
ments are bequeathed, except a
1 pendant, given to the testatrix by
4 her. daughter, Consuelo, to whom
I this jewel is left.
n To Edward c.. Rhodes, at the
a request of her three daughters,
4 she bequeaths all her land, dwell:
4 ings, contents of dwellings in the
Y State of Louisiana, Concordia and
Tensas parishes, with the excep.
: ton of three hundred acres Of
Il land, and thirty acres back of hel
|! plantation, also one hundred acres
! Of land or such plantation as may
be designated by Mr.. Rhodes, t
Il tho following "negfo friends, " t.
/ be equally divided between them
Ii Noble Buckner, Ollie Reed, Ma
lissa King. Johnnie Turner, Gle
/ ment Hines, Perry Whitaker
II George Robinson, Why Buckner
/. Elizabeth White, Girard DAVIS
II William Petty is given the us'
of thirty acres of land for life
to be designated by Mr.. Rhodes
II Mr.. Rhodes is requested to pro
II vide food for Lefty Harris, Saral
Ii Scott and Milly Wallace.
II For his tender care of the ties
II tatrix in her lonely old age. Ed
II ward Rhodes is bequeathed valu
Il able property in Chattanooga.
I The testatrix thanks her dangh
II ters' for renounciDg their inherit
| ence in the Louisiana plantations
|. declaring that these lands hay
II never been productive of revenue
|. and their maintenance for genera
III tions has been q drain upon tn
- estate.
- Other indications Of the solici
, tude of Mrs. Yznaga for the poo
and helpless who she had Be
friended. and provided for durin
her life, are contained in the fins
paragraphs of the instrument. Sh
/ mentions an item of two thousan
| pounds sterling which her daugt
| ter. Consuelo, had deposited
Il Uef CIeUlb III OOltHO > Dam, 1Lp'
| don. This she desires Mr.. Rhode
| to receive and from the incom
| derived from it he is requested I
| pay to Maria Mellon, $50 month
| ly, an allowance which the testri
| trix had continued many years
| In the event that Mr.. Rhodes do
| not receive the bequest now ID q
| English bank, Il pray my ev'
] charitable Louise Vanderbilt
-- do this"
ma In addition to the specific b
y quests to her former servants al
< those who had ministered to h
q needs, the instrument says:
p have in savings banks small sun
3 of money for each negro friend
e herein mention"
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