Evening journal., 1913-12-20
BIG BEQUESTs
TO. CHURCHES
Eliza P. Clarke Of Milford
Liberal Toward Causes Of
the MethOdiStS
$2s,pOO LEFT TO
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES

Al SfOV,VVv, NdS proven ACRE yeStti-
day and offered for probate before
Register OF wills Joshua Smith.
The charitable bequests are:
To the Methodist Episcopal Hos
pital, of the city of Philadelphia, the
sum Of $500 FOR the purpose OF en-
dowing a bed in the memory OF my
beloved daughters, Ada Clark and
sally Clark, now deceased"
To the Board of Foreign Missions
Of the NJ e. Church; to the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society OF the NJ.
L. Church; to the Women's Home
Missionary Society Of the NJ. e.
Church; 70 the Board OF Home Mis-.
Bions and Church Extension of the NJ.
L. Church, and to the conference
claimants fund of the Wilmington
Conference of the NJ. +. Church Is be-
quoathed the sum of $4,000 each, or a
total OF $4,000.
II is also stipulated regarding tho
above societies % the NJ. T.. Church
and conference claimants fund that
ii after the payment of all legacies,
expenses and costs incident 20 the
settlement of the estate. there should
remain residuary estate of $4,000 OF
shall be given $1,000 additional to
the $4,000 already provided for.
To the Avenue NJ. h. Church of Mil
ford is bequeathed the following:
$4,000 in trust to be invested and to
he applied in defraying the expenses
of said church. $1,000 in trust to be
invested and the income to be under
the direction and supervision of the
Ladies' Aid Society in the renovation.
repairing and altering of or adding to
the inside Of the parsonage of said
Avenue NJ. +. Church. and IL the aid
society shall decrease in membership
below IL, the bequest shall cease and
shall Immediately fall into and be-
come a part of the residuary estate.
To the Avenue NJ. r. Church in MIL
ford is also bequeathed three and one
half shares of the stock of the First
National Bank of Dover in trust to be
used for the upkeep Of the burial lot
of the deceased in the NJ. E. cemetery
In Milford.
The personal requests to relatives
and friends will total nearly $780,
900. Among the legacies and bequests
are the following important ones:
Three thousand dollars to each OF
the children of the late Robert Hill,
deceased, Of Smyrna, including Fan
ME c. Cox. Of Piainfield, n. j.; Rob-
srt Henry Hill, Of Smyrna; William
9. Hill. Smyrna; Sallie c. Wilds, OF
Smyrna.
Five hundred dollars to each Of the
six children of Robert ]. and Mar
sena Tharp Hill, OF Pennington,
Kent county, Del.
One thousand dollars TO William
n. Hill. son OF William and Margaret
Hill. deceased, of Milford. Del.
To Thomas Hill, son of William
Hill, of Milford. Del, a release of any
iebts he may owe the estate at her
death and in addition thereto the
sum Of $500.
Five hundred dollars to the two
sons of Thomas Hill, of Wilmington,
DEL; Robert Clark Hill and William
HILL
To the children Of John w. Adkins
md Eliza II. Adkins, of Milford,
Del, is left the following: Two thou
sand dollars to Sallie Adkins, of Mil
lord, and five hundred dollars each
20 Mary A. Brown, of Milford, and
irving c. Adkins, of Philadelphia,
Pa.
$500 to Anna Y. Adkins of Milford,
Del, widow of John w. Adkins, deceas-
I'd.
$4,000 to Robert II. Williams, Milford.
$500 TO Sallie p. Holland of Milford,
and $500 to Ellen p. Lack of Elizabeth,
n. j., children of~J. S. and Ella II. Pret-
lyman, deceased.
$1,000 to Margaret Pratt Arnold,
daughter of Nathan and Mary II. Pratt.
$4,000 to Joseph Smithers Clark, Will
mington.
$500 to Benjamin V. Clark, son OF
Joseph S. Clark of Wilmington
$4,000 to her niece, Laura c. Thomp-
son of Ida Grove, Iowa, wife OF James
+. Thompson and daughter of brother
of Mrs. Clarke, George Cubbage, de-
ceased.
$4,000 to each of her nephews, sons OF
her brother, George Cubbage, deceased
including Alonzo Cubbage, Edwin Cub.
bage, Clarence Cubbage, Frank Orior
qubbage and Herbert Cubbage, a total
of $4,000.
To Clarence i. Thompson and Elmer
Thompson, twin sons Of j. Z. and Laura
G.. Thompson. each 5000.
10 her nephews, Harry S. Hamm and
Benjamin +. Hamm. sons of her hall
brother, benjamin f. Hamm, deceased
a farm at CowgilPs Corner, near Dover
of T3 acres. Also Is acres of woodland
in East Dover hundred, the said two
tracts to be held by said nephews as
tenants IN common, not as Joint tenants
To Harry 5. Hamm, the elder son ol
Benjamin f. Hamm. deceased, a hall
brother, farm in Little Creek hundred
near Cowgil's Corner, containing Il
acres OF land, known as the Cottage
Farm" In addition to the lands above
described and devised to her nephews
Henry S. Hamm and Benjamin +. Hamn
5equeathcd the sum of s. 900 absolutely
10 each Of them their heirs.
TO Lizzie c. Hamm, daughter OF hei
halt brother, Benjamin f. Hamm, is be
queathed 90 shares of the stock of tn,
Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware
and in addition thereto is bequeathed 1,
the said Lizzie c. Hamm the sum O.
$4,000 absolutely.
Item % of the will reads as follows:
1T is my will. and I so direct, that
all the lands at any time heretofore BY
me conveyed. and that all monies al
any time advanced, loaned or paid, on
account of my brother, George Cub.
bage, deceased, or to or on account OF
am of his children, or 10 or on ac.
count of my half brother, benjamin
+. Hamm. deceased. OF to or on ac.
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