Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-25
CONGRESSMAN GORDON LEE n
GIVES SIS, 900 TO ORPHANAGES
IN GEORGIA AND CAROLINA
Representative From SeV-
enth District Donates Fund
for Decatur HapeViIIe and
Clinton Institutions

ROME, Ga. Dec. 22.-Congress'
man Gordon Lee, Of Walker county,
has established trust fund Of $751;
600 worth of stocks and bonds for
equal participation in the proceeds
by the Methodist Orphans Home at
Decatur, Ga, the Baptist Orphans
Home at Hapeville, Ca. and the
Presbyterian Orphans Home at Gin
ton, South Carolina, it was an
nounced here today. Congressman
Lee is in Rome for a few days.
Trustees appointed to administer
the fund are Gordon l.. Hight, Of
Rome; Horace J. Smith, of Dalton;
William C. Wright, of Newman; G..
E. Maddox, of Rome, and Thomas w.
Lee, of Chicamauga. They are au-
thorized to use the fund so as to
produce the best possible income for
division between the three homes,
and it is provided that the fund
must be used by the homes in de-
fraying the usual and ordinary eX-
penses of maintaining and educating
children who are inmates. In tho
case of a vacancy. the remaining
trustees may elect successor, who
must belong to the same religious
faith as the man he succeeds.
There is a provision in the estab-
lishment of the fund, that in the
event the Presbyterian denomination
ceases to support the Thornweu or
phange at Clinton, and establishes
an orphans home in Georgia, the
new home shall receive the portion
of the fund that had been assigned
to the Clinton home.
AS memorials to Mrs. Olive Emily
Berry Lee, his deceased wife; Mrs.
Elizabeth Gordon Lee, his deceased
mother, and Mrs. Hibernia Dough
erty Berry, deceased mother of his
wife, Congressman Lee has desig-
mated that the money going to the
Presbyterian home shall be known
as the Olive Emily. Berry Lee fund,
that going to the Methodist home
shall be known as the Elizabeth
Gordon Lee fund, and that going to
the Baptist home shall be known as
the Hibernia Dougherty Berry fund.
Provisions of Fund
The terms governing the transfer and
control of the fund were outlined in the
deed as follows:
Believing that the care, maintenance and
proper education of helpless orphans is one
of the best and highest forms OF charity,
and being DESTROYS Of aiding the Methodist,
| Baptist and Presbyterian denominations IN
| Georgia, in their respective efforts in this
| direction, and in aiding them in the mainte-
nance and support of the Institutions which
| they are fostering for this purpose, to-wit:
| The Methodist Orphans home, at Decatur,
| Ga; the Baptist Orphans home, at Hape-
Vile, Ca, and the Presbyterian Orphans
home, at Clinton, $. c.. l, Gordon Lee. of
| the county of Walker and state of Georgia,
in consideration of the premises and of the
sum of So, to me paid by the trustees
| hereinafter named. the receipt of which Is
| hereby acknowledged, have given, granted,
| transferred. aliened, conveyed and deliyerd
! unto:
Gordon L. Hight. of Rome, Ca; Horace ].
Smith, of Dalton, Ga; William G. Wright,
Ga, and Thomas w. Lee, of Chickamauga,
\ Ga, in trust, nevertheless, and for the uses,
| objects and purposes in this instrument
| hereinafter more fully set FORTH and do. by
| convey and deliver to said trustees as afore
| said, stocks, bonds and securities, the total
| present market value of which is at least
| $75. 600, and which said stocks, bonds and
| securities / have transferred and delivered
| to said trustees as aforesaid.
The said property is to be held managed
| and used by said trustees in manner so as
| to produce the best possible income and re-
| turns. for the purposes herein expressed,
| consistent. of course, with wise and pru-
dent business methods. for the benefit and
| use of said three orphan institutions, equal
! ly, but only in defraying the usual and or
binary expenses of maintaining and educat-
| ing children who may be inmates thereof.
Fund May Be Increased
| To properly effectuate these objects and
| purposes, the said trustees and their sue
CeSsOrs in office are authorized to control
| and manage said property; receive the divi-
! dends, interest and income thereon; to sell,
dispose Of convey and transfer said prop
| erty for reinvestment, at will, or any form
! or species of property in which the pro
| ceeds of the sale may be reinvested, and
| to apply said income, interest or profits on
\ the said property herein conveyed, and on
any property securities in which said
| trustees may reinveSt the proceeds of the
| sale of any property, by paying over the
same. annually or oftener. equally, to the
| trustees, boards or proper officials or said
! institutions for the purposes aforesaid. and
so that said institutions will each receive
| annually One-third of said income, interest
! and profits eXceput, however, that said truS-
! tees shall each year retain ms much as %
! per cent of said entire interest, income and
profits and use and renvest the same for
| the purposes herein set forth. and so that
! the said $4,000 fund may be annually aug
| mented and increased.
In the event vacancy should occur in
| the board and personnel by death, resgna
| ton or otherwise, OF tue trustees udNt
named grantees herein, or any of their
| successors, the surviving trustees shall
within ninety days, fill such vacancy by
| designating and electing some Georgian of
| the same religious denomination is the ono
| whose vacancy is being filled, and surviv
| ing trustees in the meantime shall perform
| the duties and exercise the powers hereii
prescribed and conferred.
| Out of respect to the memory OF. and a.
memorial to my deceased wife, Olive EN-
| lily Berry Lee; my deceased mother, Eliza
beth Gordon Lee, and Hibernia Dougherty
| Berry the deceased mother of my said wife
hereby designate the part Of the saf
| fund from which said Presbyterian orphan
| age is to receive one-third Of the income
| as the Olive Emily Berry Lee fund; tina
| part of the said fund from which the sale
! Methodist orphanage is to receive ne-thirt
of the income. as the Elizabeth Gordon Lee
| fund; and the remaining One-third Of sai(
fund from which the Baptist orphanage is
| to receive One-third Of said income, a. the
| Hiberna Dougherty Berry fund.
| Power of Trustees
| In order that my objects and purposes as
! herein expressed may be intelligently anC
properly effectuated, l hereby clothe The
| said trustees, who are grantees herein, ant
| their successors, with full and complete au
| thoritY and power to control, handle and
| manage the said property herein conveyed, o!
| any reinvestment of the same, in such way
| as to said trustees and their successors may
| deem best for the purposes herein expressed,
| consistent, of course. with wise and pru-
| dent business methods.
Inasmuch as the Thornwell orphanage, at
! Clinton, s. c.. is now being fOstered and
controlled by the Presbyterian denomination