Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-04
MRS. HETTY GREEN DEAD
At ACE OF EIGHTY YEARS
Regarded aS Worlds Richest Wo.
man and Most Remarkable
Mistress Of Finance
LEAVES CLOSE TO 500, 1000, 900
Lived Almost as Frusally as Shop
sirl-Wns Born Rich and In
heritcd Proud Family Traditions.
Many Stories OF Her Erugaiity.

NEW YORK. July y-Mrs Hctty
Green. said to be the wcal,hicst
woman in tho world. died at her home
here this morning 1T s:c5 o'clock
She had suffered three strokes Of
and for several weeks had been prac-
,ically helpless. She was eighty
years old Her death occurred at the
home of her son, Colonel Edward H.
IL Green, at > West Nincticth street
adjoining the plain brick. four story
house at No. :, on the corner Of Cen
trail Park West. where Mrs Green had
lived lately in scciusiou. except for
her son and several Japanese servants
and trained nurses. For several
weeks past Mrs. Gree had been un-
able to walk, and had spent practically
All Of her time in a wheel chair. The
nurses occasionally lifted here into her
automobile. where. proppcd up by pill
lows and protected by furs the mis-
trcss OF finance enjoyed few after
moons in the park Most of the time.
however. she sat in the wheel chair
at one OF the front windows on tho
parlor floor OF her house and Eazcd out
over the park. motionlcss for hours at
a time
Her son. Colonel Grcon. and her
daughter. Mrs. Matthews Astor Willls.
who were the only children, had been
with her much Of the time, and it WAS
recently reported that Mrs. Green had
turned over all Of her financial affairs
to her sons charge
Both were ;.t their mothers bedside
when she died notwithstanding that
she had Suffered paralytic strokes. the
most serious Of which occurred a week
ago last Thursday. the end was rather
sudden for yesterday Mrs Green
seemed in better spirits than for some
time, and she instructed her secretary
to tell innuiring friends that she was
feeling extremely veil"
Last night. however, a grave reiapsc
occurred. and Colonel Green summoned
the family physician. DR.. Painter Dur
ing the night Mrs. Green became un-
conscious at intervals md the end
came during ono of these periods.
Mrs. Green's body will he taken to-
morrow TO Bellows Falls. Vermont
where she lived Tor many years. Fun.
eral services Will be held there at II 80
o'clock on Wednesday morning in the
Church of the Emmanuel, Rev Arthur
c. Wilson. pastor officiating Mrs
Green's son and daughter will accom-
pany the body.
The death of Mrs. Green will release
for distribution among large number
Of people scattered all over the United
States and abroad a trust fund said tc
amount to about s1.50O.00O
RESIDUARY ESTATE OF AUNT
TO BE DISTRIBUTED
This is thu residuar- estate of heI
aunt. Sylvia Ann Rowland, bcqucatheL
for Iletty Green's life use. and after
her death 10 be divided among the
! lineal descendants of Mrs. Green's
great grandfather. Gideon Rowland, OF
Dartmouth, Mass.
Gideon Howland was born i'm 1874
and died in 1926. and mas much as
descendants of eleven Of his children
| are living, some in the sixth genera
ton, they probably constitute small
army. Some OF the heirs inter-mar-
ried and their children will Inherit
doubly, thus adding to tho difficulty to
be encountered by 'hc trustees in de-
terminins the complete list of those
entitled to he money. Among the
Howland descendants was Sylvia Grin
Continued on Eleventh Pago.)