Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-07-07
ESTATE TO CHILDREN
Will Of Richest Woman in the
World"FiIed in Bellows Falls
$5,000,000 In Trust for Daughter -
Amount of Estate Not Indicated -
Few BeQuests to Old Friends.

The will of Mrs. Hctty Green, long
known as the wcalthicst woman in
America, leaves the bulk of her estate
to her son, Col f. II. X. Green, and her
daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks.
The remainder is distributed in smaller
requests to old friends of Mrs. Green.
No estimate of the total value of
the estate is contained in the will and
the closing clause provides that the
son and daughter shall not be required
to file an inventory or appraiscment,
or give bonds, and "shall not be re-
quired to account or subject it to the
jurisdiction of the probate court. -
The will, a document of nine type
written pages with 16 items, was filed
i'll the Office of Probate Judge Warner
A. Graham after the funeral of Mrs.
Green in Bellows Falls Wednesday.
Judge Graham set July % as the date
of the hearing. The instrument was
dated March 2s, 1911, and was wit
messed by Hoffman Miller of Tuxedo,
n. Y, and James Smith and Mrs. Fay
Smith, both of Hoboken, N. j.
After directing that all expenses in
CURED by Mrs. Green S illness and fu-
neral shall be paid promptly, the fol
lowing "tokens of esteem" are be-
qucathed: Mrs. Herbert p. Bancroft,
formerly of Bellows Falls, now of New
York, a friend of Mrs. Green, $1,000;
Armory A. Lawrence of Boston, for
merly trustee of the estate of Sylvia
Ann Rowland, aunt of Mrs. Green,
$4,000; Ruth Lawrence of 60 Wash
ington place, New York, $4,000, and
Matthew Astor Wilks, husband of
Mrs. Green IS daughter, $4,000 as can
appreciation of having made an ante
nuptial REIMBURSEMENT of any claim
on his wife property"
The will disposes of the estate of
Mrs Green S husband as directed in
his will. This property goes to the son
and daughter, with the provision that
it is given ''to the exclusion of any
interest therein or control thereof by
| any wife or husband whom he or she
! has or may we'd
All iewelry, household furniture,
portraits, paintings and other personal
effects of Mrs. Green are to be divided
equally between son and daughter as
they may agree.
/ A trust fund is then provided for
the daughter, and the son is directed
to serve as trustee without pay in
order that the daughter may have the
The will provides that the following
bonds and mortgages shall be held il
trust by the son and daughter for II
years. the income to be given to thu
daughter every three months and tn,
capital to revert to her at the end OF
the trust; $l,000,000 of Houston &
Texas Central Railroad general mort
gage per cent bonds; $4,000 of main
line Houston & Texas Central first
mortgages per celt bonds 100000 of
International & Great Northern Rail
road first mortgage per cent bonds:
100000 of international Great
Northern Railroad second mortgage .
per cent bonds; $26,400 of Information
al Great Northern Railroad third
mortgage 5 per cent bonds; $500, 900
of city of New York gold exempt 31a
per cent bonds of Nov. l, 1914; $l,9O0,-
600 of the city of New York 31a per
cent corporate stock, and $25O,OOO
mortgage on the property Of Henry A.
Budd at 572 9TH avenue, New York.
The residue of the estate is left to
the son and daughter 'in trust for 10
years" No stipulation appears in the
will as to the disposition of the estate
after the trust expires.
Col. Green and Mrs. Wilks are
named as joint executors. If one fails
to perform the duties required, the
document says that the other shall be
given full power.
Mrs Wilks was not present at the
filing of the will, 1t was brought to
the probate office by Col. Green and
Charles W. Pierson, an attorney OF
New York.
Immediately after the will was filed
the funeral party left on the evening
train for New York.