Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — Burns Left Large Estate. [ARTICLE]

Burns Left Large Estate.

The late Oliver S, Burns, of Flora, father of Mrs. C. D, Nowels of our citv, left a good sized estate aad which he disposed of by will. The particulars of which are thus stated by Tuesday’s Delphi Herald: The will of the late Oliver S. Burns was filed of probate this morning and Franklin G. Burns and Dr. Andrew J. Cook qualified as administrators. The will named John T. Burns as administrator but as he died one week before his father, other administrators weie required. They filed a bond iu the sum of SBO,OOO with the American Surety Co., as security. The will gives to his wife the house and lots where they lived, all the household goods, horse and buggy, etc. It also gives her a life estate in other Flora property which at her death goes to her grand-ohildren-the Maxwell children. It further provides for the erection of a S2OO monument over his grave in Sugar Creek cemetery; for the reduction of the estate to money and the same divided in six parts and given equally to his wife, children and grandchildren after the amounts advanced to each is deducted. It provides however that no advancement made to the Max veil children shall be taken into accounts, but they shall receive a sum equal to the largest amount advanced to any of his children. The estate is said to be valued at about $40,000 and it is not improbable that the estate will be settled only after a legal fight.