San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-08
LEAVES FORTUNE
F On EDUCATION
AND CHARITIES
Colonel Towns Will Be-
queaths S250,0OO to
Dartmouth College.
$4,000 TO CHURCH HERE
Salvation Army Rescue
Home and Carnegie Ii
brary Also Remembered.

The sum of S25O,OOO or one-half the
total value of his estate is given to
Dartmouth College at Hanover, n. H.,
by the late Col. Francis L. Town in
his will which was filed for probate
Monday in the BexSr county clerks
office. The city Of San Antonio where
he has resided for the last - years,
the city of Lancaster, y. H.. the town
of his birth, several charitable insti-
tutiOnS and more than a dozen in
dividuals, resi,ling here and elsewhere,
are also named as bcneficiarics.
Colonel Town. one of the army'S
oldest and most prominent retired Off
GERS, died December 81 at his home
at $50 Grayson street as a result OF
a stroke Of apOplcXy. He never mar
ried and had no immediate kindred.
The requests are made TO distant rCla-
tons and TO individuals whose ac-
quaintancc lie made during his life
time.
The will. dated June l., 1922, con-
tainS more than nine and OnC-half
closely typewrittcn pages and was
typed by Colonel Town, himself. with
no other person present, so the intro
ductory paragraph states.
To Aid Deserving Students.
Colonel Town expressed the wish
that his remains be buried at Ian
caster, n. H., "a locality greatly be-
loved by me and the place where |
spent my childhood days" The sum
of $4,000 is provided for the purchase
of burial lot beside his fathers and
the erection of a monument that will
withstand the action of the elements. 3"
Colonel Town directs that no in
scription be made unon his tombstone
other than Sol. Francis L. Town.
NJ. D., L. S. Army. born 1896. Died
10" He asks that the burial lot
as well as the monument be kept in
good condition.
The first and largest bequeSt is
S2J0.000 TO Dartmouth College from
which he graduated in 1861. The will
provides that part of this sum be
used for the establishment of annual
prizes to be given TO "meritoriOus and
deserving students"
Church and Charity Remembered.
The Salvation Army Home on River
avenue is given GO shares of preferred
stock in the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company. The San Antonio
Young Wompn's Christian Association
is given 80 shares Of stock in the same
company.
The sum of $1,000 is given the vestry
of st. Paurs Episcopal church on
Grayson avenue, the church which he
attended, to be used in the erection Of
parish house.
The will provides that the Carnegie
Library of San Antonio be given such
of his library of 200O volumes as it
can use.
To Mrs. Charles c. CrcSson. Colonel
Town leaves all carpets. rugs, furniture,
bedding and all other furnishings, with
the exception of his books and oil
paintings. i'm his San Antonio home.
In his will Colonel Town directs that
the oil paintings be sent 10 Lancaster
to be hung in the schools and other
public buildings.
BY terms of the will. Mrs. Cecilia
Miles Rcber, wife of Col Samuel Miles
Reber. receives the larger of Colonel
Towns two diamond rings. The
smaller is given to Mrs. Mary Cres-
son Kcarny.
Colonel Towns automobile, together
with all accessories, is given to julius
Il. Peterson.
Another large beQueSt Is that of go
shares of stock to the Lancaster Hos
pitaI. However. it is provided that
in the event public hospital is erected,
the gift shall revert TO this institu-
tiOn.
Real estate and other property in
Lancaster is willed TO the city of Ian
caster with the provision that the
yearly earnings go to a trust fund to
be used in promoting high ideals and
right living among the youth of Ian
caster.
Other bcneficiarics are f. r. Al
bee, Mrs. Bessie Albec. Horace h. Al
bee, Mrs Amanda b. Albep. George
W. Weston, Mrs. BPtSev Towne Hig-
gins. Mrs. Martha J.. Swallow. Mrs.
Helen NJ. Glecd and Mrs. Sarah +.
Griswold. Some of these beneficaries.
the will rccitcs, have never been seen
by Colonel Town.
The Lockwood National Bank Of
San Antonio and the Lancaster Ma
tiOnal Bank of Lancaster. y. H.. are
by Colonel Town as executors
of his estate.