STRANGE BEQUEST
GRAVE GIVEN TO SERVANT
(United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON,. December 10
Long companionship and devotion between a mistress and her two servants, who were sisters, accounts foi an unusual provision in the will, published recently, of Miss Ann de Visnies Bloxam, of Westgate-on-S»a. Before her death she bought three graves, side 1 by side, in YVestgate Cemetery. Three years ago one servant, M<ss Frances Rebecca Nobes, was buried i* l one of them. Miss Bloxam was buried in the centre grave, and in her will she directed that the other servant, Miss Mary Nobes, to whom she left the bulk of her estate (£5712 gross) for life, should be buried in the remaining grave, if she desired. “1 slrill observe Miss 'Bloxam s wishes,” Miss Nobes told an interviewer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1935, Page 5
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