Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1860 — Remarkable will Case. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable will Case.

We gather from the Exeter (N. IIA NewsLetter some interesting particulars of the “Betsey Farmer Will Case,” recently tried before the Supreme Court in that place, Judge Nesmith presiding. The amount at issue, was about $50,000. Her death occurred Jan. 7, 185(5, and her will is dated Jan. 6. It appears according to the testimony, that Miss Farmer was an eccentric maiden lady who lived with her cats in the midst of filth which had increased to such an extent, that one of her nieces actually made use of a shovel and hoe to clean out her rooms; her clothes had the appearance as it they never had been changed since they were first nut on. She was induced a few days before her death to allow s me of her relatives to ina' e the will, and fie-re was some intimations of an attempt to use “spiritual infih ences” upon her. When the will was signe-- there was so little life |in her that she could not hold the pen. The I testimony of the physician was that site was ■ in a very feeble state of body for several days before death. The jury stood nine in favor of the will and three against it. There j was in the will a donation of^§>2,ooo to the ; Baptist Foreign Mission Society, though Me J had not visited a church of that denoimna- ! tion for fifteen years.