REMEMBERED KINDNESS

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 522, 18 May 1915, Page 2

REMEMBERED KINDNESS

DOERS OF GOOD DEED 68 YEARS AGO NAMED IN WILL. The Minneapolis correspondent of the ' New York Times-Picayune ' relates the following :-*— Two women, who were little girls m St. Anthony more than half a century ago, and who "are nearing old age at Peoria, UL, will be surprised by the probating of a will m Minneapolis which makes them heirs to a tidy income, coming to them through gratitude of the testatrix, a Minneapolis woman, for kindness done by their parents m the days when Minneapolis, was an Indian camping place. It was the will of Mrs Laura D. Sims. In 1856 Laura Dorman, then a girl pf 18, i came with her father and mother from ! Franklin, Me., to the village of St. Anthony. In 1858 both her father and mother died without having made their fortune m the new land, and left Laura an orphan, without relatives or home. Reuben Ball' and his wife took Laura into their house and gave her a home, until her marriage there three years later. In August, 1861, Charles F. Sims and Laura Dorman were married m the house of Reuben Ball, and she and her husband went to Alexandria, Minn., where Mr Sims became a prosperous business man. After the death of her husband, Mrs Laura D. Sims, having no known blood relatives, remembered the kindness of the Balls, and began to make inquiry from mutual friends, N finally . succeeding m locating at Peoria, 111., the two girls, Martha and Susie, to whom she taiight music m Peoria, 111. Martha was living on a rented farm near Peoria with* seven children, while Susie was a "school teacher m the city. Mrs Sims had an attorney prepare her will, leaving . all her personal effects, jewellery, and eight trunks of clothing to the two women, and placing the rest of her estate,, about 10,000 .dollars, in' trust, the income to be paid to the two during their lives and afterwards to be distributed to their children.