Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — GEORGE GIFFORD NAMED EXECUTOR [ARTICLE]

GEORGE GIFFORD NAMED EXECUTOR

Tip ton Attorney Named in Will of Benjamin J. Gifford—Property All Disposed of. While the will of the Igte Benjamin J. Gifford was not filed at 3 o’clock this afternoon it was known that Attorney George Gifford, of Tipton, Ind., had been named as the executor of the will which was revised the 11th of last November. Attorney Gifford is a distant relative of the deceased and had for some time been his legal adviser. The will t is said to provide that all the real estate and the railroad be sold and that the cash be disbursed according to the provisions of the will among relatives. Attorney Gifford will be required to give bond for SIOO,OOO before entering upon the task of carrying out the provisions of the will. He was at ’ Kankakee Tuesday to attend ths funeral and came to Rensselaer that evening and stated to a reporter for The Republican at noon today that the will would be filed either this afternoon or tomor row morning. Miss May Gifford, of Chicago, who spent several weeks at the side of her half-brother during his sickness, returned here Tuesday evening following the funeral and will gather up a number of belongings of Mr. Gifford and see that they are properly put away. Miss Gifford is a teacher on the Chicago schools and expects to return there next Monday and resume her work, which a substitute has been earing for during her absence. N. G. , Halsey, who for several years was Mr. Gifford’s confidential ejerk, returned here today and 'will act with the executor in getting the settlement of the big-estate started. There is no present means of making an estimate of the amount that can be realized out of the Gifford railroadzand lands and those who should z know the iqost about it place the estate as worth any place from SIOO,OOO to $600,000.