The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-08
Goddard Seminary Gets Bulk
Of Pease Estate
ON NTHEPAYMENT OF$l,5OO
Mrs. Sophia Pease Had Expressed a
Wish, Outside of Her VIII, That
Needy Relatives Be Cared
For.

There will be no contest Of the win
of the late Mrs. Sophia Peasa Of Hart
ford, by which she bcqueabhed her entire
estate to Goddard seminary Of this city,
for the trustees of the seminary and
the attorneys for the only heir at law,
Mrs. Mary Pease, kaH-sister, residing at
Lawrence, Kan, have reached an agree
ment whereby the sum of $1,000 will go
TO Mrs. Mary Lease and, in addition, the
sum Of $500 is given TO q namesake of
the deceased woman's husband in Port
land, Oregon. This latter person was
not an heir at law, but there was found
with the deceased's papers request that
$500 be given to Charlse Il. Pease Of
Portland, with the additional request
that the 81 900 be given TO the half
sister in Lawrence. That wall leave
about $1,000, it is thought, to the sem-
mary.
The trustees took this action according
to the proposition OF Plumley & Pluinley
for Mrs. Mary Pease, with the agree
ment that the appeal against the allow
ing of the will be withdrawn. That ap-
peal has been withdrawn and the stipu-
lations signed by the heir at law. In
cluded in the amount transferred by the
trustees is ten shares Of the 0ttiqueeche
will which are valued at 81 900. Ths
seminary made this settlement, not be-
cause it feared the will might be broken.
but because the trustees did not wish
to appear grasping in the matter.
The will had been allowed by the
probate court of Windsor county, al
though included in the envelope with
the document were two letters, one Of
which contained wish of the testatrix
that the two persons named be provided
for .fsince they were not in the best of
Her wishes are thus car
ried out, and an amicable settlement
has been made without the necessity Of
going to law over it. Attorney j. Ward
Carver, who apepared for the trustees,
was convinced that the letters had no
binding effect on the win itself, az apr
parentiy did the judge who allowed It,
but acting on the suggestion of the
trustees Of the school he went ahead
and effected the agreement this week.
The letters were not affixed to the wills
but were simply enclosed In the same
envelope in which the will was found.
The bequest to Goddard was an entire
surprise to the trustees of the institn-
ton, as they had no knowledge of the
interest OF Mrs. Sophia Pease in the
school. az was evinced by such gener-
Gus bequest. The exact amount remain
ing after the estate is settled next May
Is uncertain, but it will be upwards of
81 900, much Of which is in papers and
only SI,400 in real estate. Stock in the
Capital Savings Bank in Montpelier nd
deposits in the same institution and
some notes comprise the majority Of it.
It is possible that the bequast will be
lpplied toward the new science building,
which the school proposes to erect.
Mrs. Pease was supposed to have died
without property, as it was thought that
III her husbands property had been
wiped out before his death, which oc-
,urred fourteen years ago, and v it
vas a great surprise to her aequaint-
lnces when her private papers were
ound following her death : few weeks
go.