The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-03
4. eAIlLAaO SMART
nAST0|0ITlS VICTIM
smart, and We'd Hcir~s After
OCEAN Voyage to Honolulu.

Charlottesville, Va, Nov. Eli
Saiiiard Smart, youngest son OF the
tate Rev. Richard ID. Smart. d. D..
lot years member OF the Virginia
conference. NJ. Il. Church. South. died
- $50 O'Clock this afternoon at the
MARINA Jefferson Sanatorium, this
CITY, Following an operation for
nastoid!tis
Young Smart was educated at pri-
vate schools in this city and after one
session At the University Of Virginia
iett .or Honolulu 10 accept position
, as clerk for the Trent Trust Com
pany. On the Pacific steamer he met
Miss Annie Thelma X. Parker. sole
helfess OF the Parker estate. worth
AT least three million dollars. II was
case OF love at flrst sight and the
marriage Of the young couple occurred
az the Parker home In July. 1912. the
bride being but eighteen years Of ave
Two children were.., born-Richard
Smart. who survives. and child
which was victim OF tuberculosis
and died In Paris. the CITY ~ ire
birth. when less than a month old
The mother died in 1914 in San Fran.
cisco.
After the mothers. death a nsht
over the estate ensued. Three Wills
were produced and the contest proved
one of the bitterest ever waged in
Hawaiian courts. In April OF this
Under this compromise the third Will
stands good. 1t made SPECIFIC be-
quests aggregating $4,000 OF this
total the sum Of $4,000 was to go to
her husband. and $4,000 to her step
father, Edward =. knight. There
were many smaller requests. among
them $1,000 each to Richard D.
Smart. Jr.. missionary professor in
a Chinese college: DIR. W. Aiken
Smart. professor in the new Metho-
dist College at Atlanta. Ga. DIR.
Frank Pelzer Smart, OF Norfolk ard
to Miss Ella Aiken Smart. 81 tina,
city. The entire residue of tha big
estate was given TO Smart virtually
without condition. requesting how
ever, that he make due provision for
his son. giving the latter two-thir As
OF the income and two-thirds OF the
estate when the trust terminated BIZ
the death OF Mrs Knight but the will
provides that in case of Smarts death
before the termination of the trust, al
of the property. except such as was
disposed OF by specific requests. was
devised and bequeatehed to any issue
OF her marriage with Smart that
might be living at the time. in equal
shares II more than one. 1t is said
that the requests to the Smarts have
not been paid.
The remains OF young Smart will
be taken to Washington for crema-
ton The dust viii finally be deposit
ed beside that OF his wife and child
in South California. They. too, were
cremated 1t was young Smart's
prayer to recover that he might re-
turn to his child, the custody OF which
the courts had awarded to Mrs.
Knight until the ch!ld's sixteenth year.
when the father was to have the right
OF custody II he chose to exercise 1t.
This child. now something over two
years old. is in Mrs. knights keep
ing In Hawaii. His fathers death re.
moves any chance OF friction concern
Ing his control and insures him at
his majority very large estate. The
net income OF the estate In the hands
of the trust Is now 100000. When
the child reaches his majority II II
estimated that this income will have
Increased to 100000. Mrs. knight