The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-03-19
Forgotten Poor Cousins Share in
Estate of Wealthy
Oil Man.
MILLIONAIRE LEFT NO WILL
Wealth Comes to Aged People Whose
Lives Have Been Largely Filled
With neutrality-suspicious. for
Heirs Is Difficult.

Wheaton, Ill. - Satisfied smiles
spread over nine faces in the corridors
of the red courthouse here recently, fol-
nine persons. whose lives had been
largely filed with hardships, knew
that within II few weeks they would
be rich. Rich is the only applicable
nothing but Il dream.
Judge S. l.. Rathje of the DuPage
county court had just indicated that
five of the nine were legal heirs to the
s., 100000 estate of William +. Cowan.
former president of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, who died ar his
Wheaton country home i'll the summer
of 1918 The other four were hus-
bands and wives of the heirs
Nine to Share So. 600.
With the establishment of heirship
by the FIVE relatives of the wealthy oil
man the total number of heirs who
will receive a share of the estate is
nine After expenses have been de-
Quoted, according to attorneys. the es-
tate will total more thar S2.5O00OO.
Each Of the nine heirs will receive
heritance taxes are paid.
Three of the heirs are more than
seventy years of age. one is ninety,
the youngest is forty-four years old.
None of them remember personally
the man whose death brought them
this benefaction. But two ever saw
him. They took upon their inheritance
as some vague dream of paradise.
The heirs who established their
claims are:
William Saxton, seventy-two years
old Eagle, Mich.
Walter Saxton. seventy-two years
old Waucausta. Mich.
Charles Saxton, siXty-eight years
old. Elsie Mich.
Mrs. Caroline Saxton Hart. fifty
eight years old. Grand Ted"e- Mich.
Mrs. r. p. Colby. forty-Tour years
old. Cadillac. Mich
William and Walter Saxton are
twins. William is married and his
wife was in Wheaton with him. Mrs.
Colby and Mrs. Hart had their hus-
bands along. too.
Other Cowan Heirs.
The other heirs who have estah-
lished sufficient evidence of relation
ship to Mr.. Cowan TO win an indica-
ton of equity from Judge Rathie ara
JudSon Phelps. ninety years old. De
troit. Mich.
Henry B. StillwelI. seventy years
old Gloversville, n. Y.
William c. StillweI. seventy-two
.-o,r- or,1 C1,-;,r,fo1,l
Heirs at law of Mrs. Helen Shad-
bolt, Plymouth. N Y who vas ninety
five years old when she died few
weeks ago.
All of the heirs are cousins-first.
second. or third No nearer kin could
he found By Alfred c. Hoy. public ad-
ministrator of Outage county.
The days hearing before Judge
Eathje did not close the case. A few
more dispositions must be taken. a
few more weeks must elapse before
the iurist can enter decree. But the
Saxton boys are happy.
When in 1919 it was learned that
Mr.. Cowan. successful business man.
and one OF the rich residents of the
Chicago Golf club colony ut Wheaton.
had died md left no will, Wheaton
wondered. Then it was announced
that there we're no heirs in this state.
Mrs Cowan's death had preceded her
husbands, and there were no children
and no brothers or sisters.
Public Administrator Hoy took i'm
mediate charge of the estate and ap-'
pointed Charles w. Hadley and George
Thoma his attorneys. Mr.. Had,ey is
states attorney of DuPage county
and has a weakness for fiaring ties