The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-28
HER MARRIAGE MUST
BE APPROVED BY FIVE
II Miss Dorotben Ballard Smith is TO
Get S500,00c Left by
Grandmother.

Washington, June 2T.-A board OF
advisers to approve a young womans
choice of husband is named for NJ SIS
'orothea Ballard Smith, of Dinar.
france. London and the Hotel St.
%cgis. in the will Of her grandmother,
Airs. Caroline Falconcr Butterhcld.
"ho leaves tho bulk Of an estate
fnlucd at over S5Uc,0o0 to her grand
daughter on condition that the pro-
tisions OF the will are complied with.
iirs. Butteriield names young man
whom her granddaughter must not
marry II she desires any part of the
estate.
Mrs. Buttcrfeld, who died at the ST.
Hesis on June last. was the widow
OIL Frederick Buttcri!cld, head of an
importing firm, and made her home
part of the time in New York and part
al each year in Castle Cliss, in Height
~. Yorkshire, England. Her only sur
wing relatives were her granddaugh-
Ter and her daughter. Mrs. Sarah Kate
Ialcone' Ballard smith. widow OF
Justice B. Smith
In putting the resduary estate in
trust for her granddaughter. with
power TO her granddaughter to DIS
pose OF the estate on her death. Mrs
Buttcrticld said:
AS a matter OF affcct!onate advice
TO my granddaughter, l urge her in
all important decisions to be guided
by the advice OF her mother or god
mother or ncr guardian. Should my
granddaughter every marry any son
OF Eleanor Phelps Mckcague. now the
WIDOW of Henry Sedley. my said grand
daughter shall thereby forfeit and lose
all of her interest OF every description
under this Will"
Mrs. Butteriicld named a board COM
prising five persons. including her
"A 4
prevail to her granddaugMter's mar
riage or TO other important steps she
may take. The other four members
OF this board are +. W. Lewis Butter
field Francis S. Bangs. Florence Mat
thews and Luclus II. Beers. Concern
ing tho advisers. Mrs. Buttertield says
in her will:
The absolute owncrahip CT so large
a sum Will impose on my granddaugh-
ter a business responsibility which few
women are able to meet and will ex-
pose her TO the risk OF loss and the
advice OF designing and incompetent
persons 1t will promote her personal
happiness If she leaves these matters
to3' the trustees named"
The tcstatyiX provided that il her
granddaughter marr.es against The pro-
visions OF tho VIII. the residuary estate
is to go TO the New York Post Gradu-
ate Hospital, the Chilircn's Ala Society.
the New York Geological Society and
tour persons named by her Her grand.
daughter is 10 have all the income OF
the estate when she is thirty.
Mrs. Buttortield left $4,000 to the
Children's Aid society for health home
Tor children. to be named in memory
Of her son, Frederick f. Butter.ield.
She left $1,000 to the New York Ortho-
pedic Hospital for free bed in mem
DRY Of her son, whose picture. by Con-
slant Mayer i TO hang at the head Of
the bed
The ,estatriN left 1000 to Sarah f.
aicD onald. maid, and $10.0o0 to Mary
Martha Miller 4 former maid in her
employ. sShe gave $4,000 to Com
manier Charle $ IL. Harlow. L. s. y, and
inc same amount in trust for Jane g.
fayerweather She left $4,000 ia her
friend Elizabeth Ward Doremus, wife
of Cha rles \ Dnramms