The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-28

$4,000 and it went right into the bank
The war department didn't get all the
wool at that. After the old mans death,
ia locked granary, which had been
overlooked by the government agents,
several thousand pounds more were dis
covered. Its value is added to the es-
tate
Always Lived on Home Farm.
Orson Clement was born in Corinth.
His father was a well-to-do farmer who
died about 30 years ago and left his sons
very well off, indeed. The younger boy,
Martin, was ambitious and went TO Dart
mouth college, but died somewhere about
1863, before graduation. The elder son
stayed on the farm, never marrying and
OUTLYING father, mother and all other
relatives except one or two distant cou-
sins in whose behalf an attempt is now
being made to break the will.
For 40 years Clement lived on the pa
ternal farm, which is on a side road.
nearly a mile from the nearest other
human habitation. The only other per
son in the house was his housekeeper
Mrs. Alice Bradbury.
Mrs Bradbury had worked for the
elder Clements and, when they died, she
stayed on with the son. They We're a
queer pair. "Spats" were frequent be
tween them, followed by immediate rec
onciliations. The old housekeeper
wound up the old farmers ancient gold
watch every morning for the whole 40
years without once missing the cere-
monial, except when away on infrequent
visits. They might not be on speaking
terms, but the rite of winding the watch
was never omitted.
Mrs Bradbury outlved Clement but q
month. When he died her grip on life
seemed to be broken. There was moth
ing else to go on for and she soon passed
away.
During the passage of the years, Glenn
ent's eccentricites became more and
more manifest. He developed into
curious mixture of miser and spendthrift. |
lie boarded his wool because be could |
not get his price, but he took no pains to |
protect it.
Bradford. who fixed his teeth, with /
unless he returned the old l
gold filings which he had removed. lie /
was the credulous victim of every agent /
and canvasser who had shares IN oil
wells and mines TO sell and paid over
less stock.
Over Estate.
Orson Clement died on March 10 last
aged ST years. He left an estate so
weirdy jumbled in its values that it will
be months before the appraisers can ar
rive at even an approximate idea of its
value. 1t may be $4,000. 1t may be
100000. 1t may be S150000. 1t may
be- more il may be less. But it makes
2 tempting target for the lawyers and for
remote relatives to shoot at.
The contest arises over Clements viii. |
This instrument, found among his papers
after his death. devises 1000 to his
Iousekeeper. Mrs. Alice Bradbury. who
ninistercd to his wants for 40 years
Clement was bachelor) ; $500 to her
Mrs. Emma McAlister of
Chelsea, Vt, and the residue to Dart
mouth college. 1t was drawn some years
lgo.
In the mean time a quarrel arose with
'egard to certain real estate transactions
between Clement. the housekeeper and
Ter daughter. No one knows exactly
What happened or how it happened. but
when the will was disclosed the docu-
nent had been cut squarely in two, as if
~ a pair of scissors.
The draft of another will was found
'evoking the Individual requests, but
leing unwitnessed it had no legal stand
ng DR. K. III. Bailey of Graniteville,
Who was appointed administrator of the
state, filed the fragments of the orig
nal viii for probate and the document
vas approved by Judge Ii. Il. Baldwin
If Wells River.
Now an appeal has been fled in the
probate court asking for its disallowance
1n the ground of revocation by the testa-
tor.
The only heirs that are within the
legree of kinship which would entitle
them to inherit from the deceased are
two old ladies, one of whom is more than
so years old and the other of nearly the
same age They are Mrs. Julia y. Con
verse of 81 Hammond street, Bridge
water, a widow who lives with her
daughter. a public school teacher; and
Mrs Lucy J. Dearborn of Santa Monica,
California Both are cousins of Orson
Clement They will receive the estate if
the will is disallowed.
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