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Board Rooms, Tuesday, June 12,1934
The Board met in called session at 4.30 P. M. with
the President in the chair.
The meeting was opened with prayer by Brother Coleman.
The following were present: Jenkins, Coleman, Miss
Foster, Dr. Loving, Mrs. Atkinson, Montague, Harris, Gwathmey.
Also Secretary Maddry, Office Secretary Miss Ford and Treas¬
urer Buxton.
Bro. Montague reported on his trip to Winchester , ^Ky.
with regard to the will of Mrs. Pattie F. Witherspoon. After
giving a detailed account of his meeting with the executors
the will, the following resolution was adopted:
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WHEREAS: The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, a corporation created and existing under
the laws of the State of Virginia, has been notified by W. R
Sphar of Winchester, Kentucky, that the Will of Mrs. Pattie
F. Witherspoon has been admitted to probate in the County
Court of Clark County, Kentucky, the County of the residence
of said decedent, and has furnished to the Secretary of the
Board a certified copy of said Will, and it appearing that
by the terms of said Will a bequest of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00) is made to this Board to be used for the purpose
6f sending Missionaries into certain Foreign Fields of this
Board, and the further bequest of Five Thousand Dollars
($5,000.00) to be used for building a Church at Jerusalem,
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WHEREAS, it is reported to said Board by the said W. R.
Sphar as Executor, and J. M. Stevenson as attorney, for the
estate of the said Pattie F. Witherspoon, deceased, that the
total bequests made in said Will amount to One Hundred and
Fifty-six Thousand Dollars ($156,000.00), AND WHEREAS, it is
further reported to said Board by said persons that said
estate is appraised at One Hundred and Seventy-six Thousand
Dollars ($176,000.00), and that said estate, after the pay¬
ment of funeral expenses, debts owing by said estate, Federal
Estates tax, Inheritance taxes and costs of administration,
is not more than sufficient to pay eighty per cent of each
bequest provided for in said Will, AND WHEREAS, Mrs. Jesse
Yates, one of the three sisters and only heirs at law of the
said Pattie F. Witherspoon, deceased, has served written notice
on
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R. Sphar as Executor of said estate, that she is dissat¬
isfied with the provisions of said Will, and that unless a
compromise and settlement is made with her by the first day
of July, 1934, by which she is to receive additional, sums
from said estate above the bequest made therein for her
benefit, she will file an appeal from the order of probate
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said Will in the Clark Circuit Court in Kentucky, and contes
the validity of said Will, AND WHEREAS, if said Will is set
aside, this Board will receive nothing from the estate of t]
said Pattie F. Witherspoon,
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Y/HEREAS, this Board has info|
mation that the said Pattie F. 7/itherspoon was an invalid ai
in a very poor state of health for more than six years prior
to her death, suffering from physical, nervous and mental
troubles, and that she was under hospital treatment in Balti¬
more in the years of 1931 and 1932, and later a patient in
the Baptist Hospital at Louisville, and that she has been
under the care of doctors and nurses before, and practically
all the time since the making of said Will.
NOV/, in consideration of the premises, and for the
purpose of compromising and settling the claim of this Board
to the Fifty Thousand Dollar ($50,000.00) bequest made to
. it in said Will, and the further bequest of Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,000.00) made to it in said Will, and for the
purpose of enabling the Executor of said estate to compromise
and settle with the legatee Mrs. Jesse Yates, in consideration
that the said Mrs. Yates will not appeal from the order of
the probate of said Will, and prosecute a contest thereof,
which might result in said Will being set aside, thereby
defeating entirely the bequests to this Board, and further
for the purpose of enabling said Executor to pay all bequests
in full, except the bequest to this Board and the Home
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, this Board
