New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-20
PUBLIC Requests
IN ZEVIN'S Will
Relatives, Except Brothers, Also
Provided for in Document

in the probate court and among other
items it contains requests for the New
Britain General hospital, the emit
dren's Home, the New Britain Tuoer-
Culosis Relief society, the Visiting
Nurses association, the Jewish Tuber-
culosis Relief society of Denver (Col),
the New Britain Hebrew School cor
pQraton and the Beth Atom Cemetery
.association. The will also provides for
his sisters, his wife, his mother and
his son, but specifically states that
neither of his two brothers, Harry and
Abraham levin, shall have any share
of his estate. Provision is also made
against any of the testators wife's
relatives sharing in the estate.
The will was drawn by Lawyer
Morris D. Sake on February Is of this
year and witnessed by Miss Loretta
Sullivan, Mrs. F. G.. Ellmers and Mrs.
Jennie Scheyd After providing for
the payment of all debts and funeral
expenses, the testator directs that $500
be expended for a monument on the
family burial plot. All household fur
nishings and personal effects, except
his watch and chain, are left to the
testator's wife, Mrs. Leah Gitel Zevfn,
and the watch and chain are left to
the testators son, Nathaniel Bear
levin. The sum of $500 is willed to
the testator's sister, Shina RudowslSy,
of Colonia Akron, Jaffa, Palestine.
Makes Other Requests.
Among other requests are the fol-
lowing: $50 to the board of MANA
gers of the New Britain tuberculosis
Relief society; $50 to the Visiting
Nurses association $50 to the Chill
dren's Home; $50 to the Jewish Tuber-
culosis Relief society of Denver; 500
to the Hebrew School corporation of
this city, $50 to the New Britain Gen.
eral hospital and 5000 in trust for the
Beth Atom Cemetery association for
the maintenance of the levin family
plot. The rest of the estate is left to
his son to be held in trust by the New
Britain Trust company until he shall
become 25 years of age.
Further provisions Of Mr.. Zevin's
will are that at any time during this
period of trust Mrs. levin, when she
so elects, may have One-third Of the
estate Provision is likewise made to
pay Mr.. Zevin's mother, from the
funds held in trust, $50 semi-annually
and also to pay a sufficient amount for
the support of Mrs levin as long as
she does not remarry and does not
elect to take her one-third share.
Likewise, the teStatOr provided that
the fund shall be used for the care
and support of his son, and if the
trustees Of the estate cannot agree on
the amounts to be paid, 1t shall be
left to the discretion of the probate
court.
The will states that if the income
from the trust fund is not sufficient
to pay for his sons education, the
trustees may draw from the principal
any amount up to $500 per year.
When the son becomes p years of
age, provision is made to give the wife
one-third of the estate, provided she
has not taken it before, and, II the
mother is still living, from the remain
ing two-thirds $4,000 shall be set
aside to be divided equally between
the mother and son. One-haIf Of the
rest Of the fund is left to the son. The
other half of the estate is left for the
| trustees to hold for four years and to
pay the income to the wife II she re-
| mains unmarried. At the end of the
| four years, If she is still unmarried,
| the estate will go to her and her son,
| but If the son has died in the interim,
I leaving issue, such issue shall receive
| his share. If he has died without issue,
/ the others named in the will will
share in proportion. The will also
gives Mrs. levin the right to continue
the trust fund if, In her opinion, the
son is not capable of managing his
estate when he becomes FL years of
age
Brothers Are Not Recognized.
Another paragraph in the will pro-
vides that if the son dies before be-
coming 81 years of age, Mrs, levin
shall have one-third of all trust funds
providing she has not taken such
share before. If the testators mother
is living at such time she shall receive
semi annual payments of $50 from the
$4,000 in trust One-half of the
amount left in trust will revert to The
wife and at her death, or if she has
remarked, it will be divided as fol-
lows: Forty per cent. to the testators
sister, Shima Rudowsky, in Palestioe;
80 per cent. to another sister, Mrs
Cute Jaffe, of this city; and 80 per
cent to a third sister, Mrs. Miriam
IIaWitzkin of Palestine. 1t Is espe-
cially provided that neither Harry Or
Abraham levin, brothers of the tes-
tator, shall receive any share of the
estate.
/ The will also makes provision that
if the testator's wife dies before his
son is p years of age and has not
taken her one-third of the estate, the
son will receive this in trust. the re-
! mainder being held until he is %. 1t
the son dies before becoming II and
leaves no issue, his mother having
! died. the estate shall be divided
! among the other beneficiaries as not
| to provide anything for Mrs. Zevin's
relatives If the son has left issue,
the share will go to such issue, but
under all conditions the provisions
made for Mr.. Zevin's mother hold
Z good. Furthermore, the will states
that If Mrs. levin has remarked and
has not taken her one-third, she will
| receive one-third of the net income.