Milford chronicle., 1913-12-26
BIG REQUESTS TO CHURCHES.
Eliza P. Clark of Milford Liberal
Toward Causes of the
Methodists.


valued at S400, 900, was proven last Fri
day at Dover and offered for probate
=, before Register of Wills Joshua Smith.
The charitable bequests are
r To the Methodist Episcopal Hospital,
of the city of Philadelphia. the sum of
'S8,5OO for the purpose of endowing
bed in the memory of my beloved daugh-
= ters, Ada Clark and Sally Clark, now
deceased. "
To the Board of Foreign Missions of
the NJ. E. Church to the Women For
eign Missionary Society of the NJ. E.
Church to the Women's Home Mission
ary Society of the M. E. Church to the |
Board of Home Missions and Church |
Extension of the M. E. Church, and to |
the conference claimants fund of the
Wilmington Conference of the M. E.
Church is bequeathed the sum of S5, 900
each. or total of $25, 900.
1t is also stipulated regarding the
above societies of the M. E. Church and
conference claimants fund that if after
the payment of all legacies, expenses
and costs incident to the settlement of
the estate, there should remain a resi-
duary estate of 5000 or more, that
each society above named shall be given
81, 900 additional to the $4,000 already
provided for
To the Avenue M. E. Church of Mil
ford is bequeathed the following IS. 900
IN trust to be invested and to be applied \
in defraying the expenses of said church.
81, 900 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 q
of or adding to the inside of the parson-
age of said Avenue M. E. Church, and g
If the aid society shall decrease in mem ?
bership below II, the bequest shall cease
and shall Immediately fall into and be-
come part of the residuary estate. To
the Avenue M. +. Church in Milford is
also bequeathed three and e-halfs shares
of the stock of the First National Bank N
OF Dover in trust to be used for the up- "
keep of the burial lot of the deceased in al
the M. E. Cemetery in Milford. OF
The persOal beQuests to relatives and A
friends will total nearly $3.50, 600. Among p
the legacies and bequests are the fol- tn
owing important ones is
Three thousand dollars to each of the
children Of the late Robert Hill, deceased. Y
II Smyrna, including Fannie C. Coz. of N
'lainfield, n. j.; Robert Henry Hill, of kI
smyrna; William G. Hill, of Smyrna pr
'allie G. Wilds, of Smvrna.
Five hundred dollars to each of the six NJ
hildren of Robert J. and Martina Tharp
Hill, Of Pennington, Kent County. Del. be
One thousand dollars to William H an
I'LL, son Of William and Margaret Hill. II,
eceased, of Milford, Del.
10 Thomas Hill, son of William Hill. M
Milford, Del, a release of any debts he
e may owe the estate at her death and
] addition thereto the sum of $500. Al
FIVE hundred dollars to the two sons Ro
Thomas Hill, of Wilmington, Del tn,
obert Clark Hill and William Hill. tine
10 the children of John w. Adkins lee
nd Eliza h. Adkins, of Milford. Del.
left the following: Two thousand Ha
)llars to Sallie Adkins, of Milford and T
We hundred dollars each to Mary A. Ha
rown,. Of Milford, and Irving C. Ad- we
ms, Of Philadelphia, Pa. ne,
S0OO to Anna Y. Davis, of Milford. wis
el., widow of J ohm w. Adkins, deceased /
81, 600 to Robert H. Williams. of Mil of I
rd. 49, her
$500 to Sallie P. Holland of Milford Mr.
d S5OO to Ella P. Lack of Elizabeth Int
j., children of j. S. and Ella II. Mic
ettyman, deceased. side
81, 900 to Margaret Pratt Arnold at I
lighter of Nathan and Mary H. Pratt. circ
oIO,OOO to Joseph Smithers Clark, of NJ
ilmington. dec1
800 to Benjamin V. Clark, son of and
Seph ). Clark, of Wilmington. mas
., 600 to her niece, Laura C. Thomp- pun
!, OF Ida Grove, Iowa, wife of James time
thompson and daughter of brother of ing
$. Clark, George Cubbage, deceased. conn
O. UOO to each of her nephews, sons of Reel
brother, George Cubbage, deceased. Smit
uuiHg lg AIonzo Cubbage, Edwin Cub Chri
q, clarence Cubbage, Frank Orion A Cl
40, 900. mas
o Clarence E. Thompson and Elmer Alice
Impson, twin sons of j. E. and Laura ing
thompson, each $500. Chris
o her nephews, Harry S. Hamm and A Lii
lamln +. Hamm, sons of her half girls
-her, Benjamin F. Hamm, deceased, Dill:
I'm at CoWgllIs Corner, near Dover. Essay
3 acres. Also 1S acres of woodland io0ne
iast Dover Hundred the said two Recit
IS to be held by said nephews as ten Smitl
IN common, not as joint tenants. girls.
Harry s. Hamm, the elder son of Rem
lamin F. Hamm, deceased, a half Mary
her, farm in Little Creek Hundred. Level
cowgirl Corner, containing rs Amv
OF land, known as the Cottage fonr
n. In addition to the lands above schoo
rlDed and devised to her nephews. oirls.
ry ). Hamm and Benjamin F. Hamm. Love.
eathed the sum of 81, 900 absolutely. Befor,
.ch of them their heirs. NioSt
,,.l4I- i-i4Lie y. namn' daughter of her Christ
brother, Benjamin F. Hamm. is he The n
thed 20 shares of the stock of the II Can
lers' Bank of the State of Della D,eioo
;, and in addition thereto is be- Recits
thed to the said Lizzie C. Hamm
um OF $4,000 absolutely.
m p of the will reads as follows
IS my will, and l so direct. that
le lands at any time heretofore bv
onyeyed, and that all monies at any Johr
advanced, loaned or paid, on ac- Del, G.
OF my brother, George Cubbage. annive
sed, or to or on account of anv of Der of
llldren, or to or on account of nv enough
brother, Benjamin F. Hamm, de- very en-
d, or to or on account of any of his non We
en- respectively, shall be taken lsome a
considered as gifts from me. Anl The
I,ce nee OF such indebtedness shall be z. Chu
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