Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-11-06
$4,000 GIVEN TO
COLORED SCHOOL
If Board Didn't Live Up To Its
Promise, In Miss BennEzt's
Will, Probated Monday

| Fearing that the members Of
. the present School Board were
not going to live up to their
promises to the colored people of
Rich1rcnd. as the colored people
had charged So often, the late
Miss Belize II. Bennett in a cod
icil to her will, probated in coun-
ty court Monday, provided that
the sum of $4,000 should be paid
for the colored school building
annex out of her estate if the
Board failed to make good its
promise. DR.. R. L. Telford and
Miss Bennett had to guarantee
to the colored people that the
School Board would live up to its
promise to them before the col
ored people would vote for the
school bond issue, it has been re-
peatedly stated and not enied.
The codicil to Miss Benefits 5
will reads as follows:
Lexington, Ky, May y, 1922
A codicil to my will:
am having this codicil writ
ten by my stenographer, Deacon
ness Emily Olmstead, as | lie on
my sick bed in the Good Samar-
itan hospital in Lexington, May
y, 1922. My will written some
years ago is now at my home in
Richmond, Ky. 1t has in it
clause leaving a certain amount
Of money for the use Of the Wo-
mans Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal church,
South. | have learned in the last
"a hours that the School Board
CT Richmond, Kentucky, does not
intend to give the full amount of
money promised for additional
rooms to the negro school build
ing in Richmond, Kentucky. If
this board fails to do this, l here
with ask my brother, Waller Ben
nett, to take $4,000 from the
amount mentioned in my will for
the use of the Woman's Mission
airy Society of the Methodist
church, South, and apply it to
the building Of additional rooms
for the negro school in the east
end of Richmond, Kentucky.
BELLE H. BENNETT
Inasmuch as the Board did live
up to the colored people in this
instance. after it had been guar
anteed by Miss Bennett and Dr.
Telford, this bequest OF Miss
Bennett will not be required.
Miss Be metz 5 will was writ
ten in her own hand and is dated
May 28, 1912. After making be-
quests Of sums to her brother
and nieces and nephews and 9TH
er relatives, Miss Bennett be-
queathed to the Board Of Mis-
sionS Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, for the use and
benefit of the Woman's work of
the said church, 1 give $4,000,
which shall be equally divided
between the Home and Foreign
departments of the Woman'5
Missionary Council"
y Miss Benefits will was wit
messed by the late Mrs. Jennie
Med. Holton and G. G. Cornelius.
Harvey Chenault's Will
The will of the late Harvey
.Chenault, also probated Monday
in county court, wills the 150-
acre farm on the Big Hill pike,
known as the Gregory place, to
his wife and at her death so
much of the land as is worth
$4,000 in value, is to be equally
divided among his nieces and
nephews, share and share alike.
and the remainder above $4,000
his wife may dispose of as she
wishes All the remainder of his
estate is given to his wife abso-
lutely. Waller Chenault is nam
ed executor of the instrument,
which was dated Nov. 80, 1914,
and is witnessed by J. J. Green
leaf and L. B. Harrington.
Robert r. Burnam, Sr.'s Will
The will of the late Robert R.
Burnam, Sr., gives to his chill
dren his life insurance, amount
to $500 and the remainder of
his estate to his wife absolutely
The will is ho.ographic instru-
ment and dated Nov. 20 1880