The Bourbon news., 1909-03-19
A Home for Aged Widows and
Wives of COnfederates.

TFrom Confederate Home Messenger.
The fiapl settlement of the celebrated
Parr estate assures an early provision
for aged and dependent women. The
Parr will involved property at over a
million dollars. Some $500, 600 of this
he bequeathed for an old woman's
home, to be known as the "Parr Rest" "
The will was regarded as unjust to
some of his legal heirs, consisting of
three children, and was contested in
the courts, which has taken up several
years time. 1t has finally been set
tied out of court to the satisfaction of
all concerned.
The property has accumulated from
income and increased in value in that
time, and the amount available for the
"Parr Rest" is about $500, 900. About
$4,000 of this will be spent in build
ing and equipment of the Home and
the balance as an endowment for its
support. This fund is left in the hands
of a board, consisting OF men most OF
whom are members Of the Baptist
church. So far as We have been able
TO learn there are no restrictions what
ever upon ones eligibility TO become q
beneficiary TO tnis munificent gilt other
than that she must be old, with no
means of support and incapable of
making her own living.
1t is believed however, the Board
will arrogate to themselves the power
of restricting the benefaction to the
State of Kentucky. Captain Parr
stipulated the Home should be located
in Jefferson county, Kentucky. The
Board is looking for location IN the
Eastern part of the city of Louisville,
where the ground is high and healthy,
and where there are many beautiful
sites.
This Home, of course, means Home
for the aged wives and widows of Con-
federate Veterans, who, we hope, will
be among the first to apply for admit
tance. About thirty men in the Con-
federate Home have wives true, some
Of these are young wives; married
later in life, but the majority of them
are old and as helpless as the Veteran
husband, and in need of just such bene-
faction.
1t is a noteworthy fact that Captain
Parr who has provided so magnificent
ly for the old women, gave the first
S5, 900 that made possible the Confeder-
ate Veterans Home, a fact that we
shall always recall with inexpressible
gratitude. That a man who was not in
any way connected with the Confeder-
ate cause. a steamship captain on the
Ohio river during the war, should late
in life have his sympathies so aroused
for the aged and infirm AS to bequeath
nearly all of his estate for their care is
most unprecedented; we know Uf none
other like it. 1t is we'll known that
his bequest for the Veterans Home
was made at the request of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sale, whose Confederate in
terest comes through her Marmaduke
relatives who served in the COnfeder-
acy.
While the donation by Captain Parr
was added TO by the United Daughters
of Confederate, Veterans and friends
over the State to make up a sufficient
amount with which to purchase the
present accommodations, and while it
is thesproperty of the State and sup
ported by the State, yet it is to this
first donation that we feel be owe
much, and in recognition of this fact it
is suggested that day be set apart as
memorial to Captain Parr, to be
known as Founders Day." and OBJ
served in some suitable way as an ex-
preston of our apprecition and graft
tude for the comfortable provision by
which more than 400 men have been
provided for.
The "Parr Rest" for old women will
not belong to the State, but in the
hands of Board of Trustees, and will
not be ready for occupancy for more
than year yet.