The sun., 1919-10-01
WIDOW LEAVES BIG
sums TO CHARITIES
Mrs. Mary J. NJ. Kingsland
Will Gives Million to Vari-
Gus Societies.
SERVANTS REMEMBERED
Those in Her Employ Ten
Years Get $4,000 Each
Kin Also Benefited.

Charitable requests which will ag-
Eregate considerably more than $1,000
600 with the final settlement of the
estate are made by the will of Mrs.
Mary j. Macy Kingsland, 1926 Fifth
avenue, who died August 10 at her
summer home in Lenox, Mass The will
was fled for probate yesterday. Mrs.
Kingsand was the widow of William
Klngsland, an importer, who died sew
eral years ago. and n aunt OF V. Everit
Macy of scarborough-on-the-H
Servants who had been in Mrs. Kings
lands household for many years are
remembered in the VIII by substantial
legaeies. While all who have served
her for upward OF ten years viii re-
ceive 5000 each and those in her en-
play for FIVE years will receive $1,000
each. Two old family retainers, Eliza
Bredon and Dennis Egan. win receive
legacles of $4,000 each. Following are
the charitable bequests;
Rector. church wardens and vestry-
men of Grace Church, Broadway and
table work of the House of Anna, $780,
600; Sheltering Arms, for its charitable
purposes and to be known rs the Kings
land Fund. $4,000; New York Society
for the Relief of the Crippled and Rup-
tured, 5000; New York Nursery and
Childs Hospital. $4,000; New York
House and School of Industry, $4,000;
trustees of the property of the Diocesan
Convention of New York for the sup
port and maintenance of the rector,
church wardens and vestrymen of St
Westchester county, for the worship ac-
oordlng to the canons of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, $4,000; the General
Theological Seminary of the Protestant
Episcopal Church for scholarships, a
memorial to her grandfather, the fund
TO be known as the Cornelius Kingsland
Scholarships, $4,000, and $4,000 each
TO the Children's Aid Society, New York
Association for Improving the Conditions
Of the Poor, Charity Organization of
New York, st. Luke's Hospital. Tarry-
town Hospital Association. and $4,000
each to the Teachers College and the
New York Protestant Episcopal City
Mission.
The will directs that the residue of
the estate be divided into seventeen
equal parts, one of which is bequeathed
to the trustees of the Cathedral of st.
John the Divine to aid in the compile
ton Of the big edifice, one part to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for the pur-
chase Of paintings and works Of art and
a share each to the New York Associa-
ton for the Blind. Society for the Re-
lief of the Destitute Blind. Church Mis-
sion for Deaf Mutes. House of the Holy
Comforter of the Free Church. Home for
1ncurables and the Berry School at
Mount Berry, Ga.
Specific requests to relatives and
friends are made as follows: Valentine
Everit Macy, Jr., godson of the decedent
and son of her nephew. V. Everit Macy,
$4,000; William Kingsland White. de-
scribed in the will as namesake of the
testatrix's husband. $4,000; Ethel
Perkins. companion of the decedent.
$4,000: Frances Morris of East
Eighty-third street, $4,000; Julia Hol-
brook of S24 St Nicholas avenue, $685.
900, and Louise Baldwin of West
Ninety-first street, $4,000.
Remaining parts of the residuary es-
tate are distributed among nieces and
nephews. among them being v. Everit
Macy William Kingsland Macy of Islip,
J.. L. Mrs. Kate Macy Ladd of Far
Hills, n. j.; Sylvanius ]. Macy, Jr, OF
Avon, n. Y: Mrs Cecile Erickson of
Swampscott, Mass. Mrs Josephine Bar
ron OF Rye, n. Y, and Mrs. Eliza Jen-
kins and Mrs. Cornelius NJ Harris OF
Rochester. N. Y.
The petition accompanying the will
does not give the value of the estate, but
it is believed that Mrs. Kingsland left
property worth several million dollars.