The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-07-15

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from my estate than what is allowed
and directed to be set apart to her
by the said laws, subject, however,
to the charge against her that is set
out in the 18th clause or paragraph
of this will.
10. As to my nephew, Thomas w.
Greenwade, who had his name
changed to Fitzpatrick by an order
Of court, and now goes by the name
of Thomas w. Fitzpatrick, it is my
will and desire that he shall take
and receive nothing more in benefits
or property from my estate than he
has already taken, received and en-
joyed from same while acting as my
most trusted representative and
agent under written instrument
equivalent to a Power Of Attorney
which he had prepared by his attor-
ney and brought to me to sign while
was very i'll and unable to attend
to business of any kind, but which
! then gave him, having at that time
the most implicit confidence in his
honesty and loyalty to me and my
interests, which / had every right
to feel about him from the fact that
when his mother, my sister Mary
Greenwade, died in Missouri, when
he was an infant not year old l
brought him home with me in my
arms to Mt. Sterling, and reared,
clothed, fed and educated him as my
own son, and did all in my power to
make a good and true man of him.
Said written authority / gave him
at his instance and request. did
not read it, at that time on account
of my illness and because l reposed
such unbounded confidence in him
then. l afterwards found out that
it granted him most unusual and ex-
traordinary powers in transacting
my business and managing my prop
erty and estate; and he certainly ex
ereised all the powers given him by
said instrument and other powers
more extraordinary not given him
by said instrument nor by me in per-
son at any time. The confidence l
reposed in him by this instrument
so astounded his attorneys employ
ed to resist my efforts in recent
trial to set aside the former judg-
ment against me and to be restored
to the possession and control of my
own property, that they offered said
written instrument as evidence
against me to prove me insane. l
was suddenly stricken with Sc
rious illness during the hot summer
weather Of the year 1905, while
coming home from my farm and |
have always believed this illness was
the result of "sun- stroke" or heat
prostration. Following this attack
/ was for some time entirely disabled
from attending to any OF my busl-
ness affairs on account Of bodily
illness. 1t was during this time that
/ found it necessary to employ
capable and reliable agent to attend
TO nv farms, stock and other busl-
ness; and for the reasons stated be-
fore and because | had said nephew
with me on my farms more thar
anv other one and had tried tt
train him in my ways of conducting
my farms and handling my stocl
and transacting my other business
affairs, l selected him as my agen
for said duties, believing l could re
ly on him implicitly to faithfully
and capably attend to my said busl
ness affairs. So, after that ar
ranged to spend my winters in Flor
ida on account of my weak and de
pressed physical condition. And al
forwards, while l was staying Il
Florida, information came to m
that my said nephew and trustee
agent was borrowing large sums o
money from the Exchange Bank a
Mt Sterling, KY, on notes to whic
he had signed my name, and wa
using the money so borrowed .
purchase farms and lands which n
was having decided to himself win
out my knowledge or consent. I'M
information came as such shoc
to me that l at once took tran
there and returned to my home her
in Kentucky, although / was in pa
physical condition to make this lon
journey. But ! was determined
investigate and find out the truth O
falsity of said charges against IN
said agent without delay, when
did / regret to say that l touh
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