Will of Mrs. M .E. WOODS

WOODS, MCKEMEY, DIGGINS, OWEN, PARISH, THOMPSON, LOSH, RICKLEY, SCRANTOM, PETTY, PREWITT, PARSONS, MESSICK, LYNCH, BLACK, SAMPSON, WHITCOMB, BROWN, SHEPHERD, HIGLEY, JUNKIN

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/2/2006 at 21:25:35

"Fairfield Ledger" and "Fairfield Tribune", Sept, 30, 1891

THE WILL. Mrs. M. E. WOODS' will has been filed for probate. It is a lengthy instrument, and bears date of May 27th, 1889. J. S. McKEMEY is named as executor. After providing for a suitable funeral and monument and payment of debts she bequeaths $100 to the City of Fairfield, the income from which is to be used in keeping her grave in repair; $1000 to City for use of which $100 shall be paid to Ellis Hose Company annually. "I also devise and bequeath unto said City of Fairfield, Lot 7, Block 7 in the Old Plat, being the property which has been my home in said city, for the purpose that said city may erect on said lot a market house and city hall, for the use of said city, and to be and remain the property of said city without the power of alienation, but said devise is upon condition that said city shall within five years from the taking effect of this will, erect upon said lot a good, suitable and substantial brick or stone building adapted to the purpose of a market place and city hall and such other uses as may be to the advantage and welfare of said city....

"And if said city shall not formally accept these bequests and all of them by resolution of its city council and have same duly filed with Clerk of District Court of said county within one year after my decease, then all three of said bequests shall be void, and if the building directed to be built upon said lot is not erected and in condition for use within five years after my decease then this paragraph shall be of no effect and said these bequests to said city shall be void and remain residuary in my estate."

She leaves to Mrs. Eliza DIGGINS, a sister, Mrs. E. B. OWEN, a sister-in-law, and Ellis PARISH, a nephew, all of San Francisco, Cal., $500 each; and to Euphrasia THOMPSON, Proctorville, Mo., Mrs. Maria LOSH, Harvard, Ill., and Cornelia RICKLEY, Racine, Wis., $500 each and all her personal effects. Mesdames Elizabeth COFFIN, Helen SCRANTOM, Mattie PETTY, Nancy PREWITT, Nannie PARSON, Rebecca MESSICK, Allen LYNCH, Lillie BLACK, Ray and Ellis BLACK of this city, Minnie SAMPSON, Frank WHITCOMB, Mrs. Minerva BROWN, Ottumwa, and Mrs. Melissa SHEPHERD, Kansas, $100 each.... To Mrs. D. G. RIGLEY is left a set of china, and to Mrs. C.M. JUNKIN seven pieces of china..... Ellis PARISH is to receive the residue of the estate.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.