Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-08
M0WREY WILL
HAS Been FILED
LAST TESTAMENT OF PRESIDENT
OF OTTUMWA NATIONAL BANK
IN CLERKS HANDS.
Gifts to Relatives
Widow is Made Chief Beneficiary
With Homestead, $4,000 and
Bank Stock-M. e. Church
and Y. w. c. A.

The will of J. B. Mowrey has beer
filed with the clerk OF the distric
court for probate by the executors W
H. H. Asbury and Walter L. Lewis
The estate has no inventory filed Will
lit, but the legacies provide for $22, 2O(
aside from LOG shares of bank stock
The widow Is the chief beneficiary un
der the will, being provided with the
homestead, 106 shares of bank stock
and $4,000. Under codicil that was
made some twenty months after the
| will, the annual Iowa conference Of
the M. E. church was made richer By
$1,000 which goes to the permanent
fund for the superannuated ministers
| The sabbath school Of the First M. E
churlh and the Y. w. @. A. each are
remembered, and II the estate will
permit after the other legacies have
been provided for, the First M. E.
church is to receive $500 and the M
E. church of Farson, $780,
Wife Has Homestead.
A digest Of the will shows the fol-
lowing provided for in various ways:
To Adaline Mowtey, widow, in lieu
OF all dover the sum OF $4,000 and
the homestead on North Court street
thirty shares of stock in the Ottumwa
National bank; twenty shares Of stock
In the Wapello County Savings bank;
twenty shares Of stock in the Blakes.
burg Savings bank; sixteen shares OF
stock In the Batavia Savings bank,
and twenty shares in the First Nation.
al bank and Hedrick Savings bank of
Hedrick, the intention being twenty
shares of both but not each .
To Emanuel Mowrey, a brother, is
given $4,000 and all notes held against
him by the testator, and in the event
of his preceding the maker of the will
in death, $1,000 goes to the widow OF
Emanuel.
Subject to the first four paragraphs
of the will number OF other legacies
are provided as follows:
Sarah McVey, 5000; James Mowrey.
800; Emma Mowrey, 5000; Darinda
500: Arson Phillips,
800; Della Phillips, $500; 5000 to each
Of the six children of deceased sister
Mary Phillips, and the same to five
children Of deceased sister Elizabeth
Housh 5000 to niece Josie Howell, |
and $500 to her son Charles Howell;
81 200 to Kate Smith, 5000 to Charles !
Burnett: $500 to niece Mary Plummer,
and 5000 to nephew Forrest Plummer.
To the Sabbath school of the First !
". e. church 500, and to the Y w.
). A. $500, and if after the above
egacies have been provided there is
nough left, then $500 goes to the
first NJ e. church in Ottumwa, and
100 to the NJ E. church Of Farson.
n the event there is not enough OF
he residue to provide this. 1t shall be
ivided pro rata between them.
The will bears the signature of the
wo executors and of l.. e. Stevens
nd Francis M. Hunter, and the date
f December 20, 1905. A codicil bear.
ng date Of August 20, 1907, provides
1 900 for the permanent fund of the
owa annual NJ. E. conference for the
Import of superannuated ministers.
The will Of the late w. S. Parker,
7hich is also on file, shows the widow,
farion B. Parker, as the sole bene- i
ciary Of the entire estate, which is not I
nj,