Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — OHIO WILL INHERIT CLOCK [ARTICLE]

OHIO WILL INHERIT CLOCK

State to Come Into Possession of Famous Time-Piece When the Last Heir Dies. New York. —The will of Rear Admiral David B. Macomb, U. S. N., former commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, filed the other day, makes provision for many pf the famous Macomb family relics, among them the original family deed of Grosse isle In the Detroit river. Admiral Macomb died on January 27. To one of his daughters, Mrs. Margaret A. Bell, to whom he presented the original deed In Grosse isle, which is to be presented to the Michigan Historical* society at the time of her death, he also willed a family clock designated as the Worthington clock. The clock was bequeathed as follows: "Never to be sold or bequeathed except to a lineal descendant of Thomas Worthington, and in case there should be none of such issue or descendants of the name of Worthington to buy or inherit it, the Worthington clock shall revert to or be given to the Historical society of Chillicothe, 0., or to the state of Ohio for safe keeping.”