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500 & ••••••••• 247 • Last Will and Testament of SBA [4 January 1904] I, Susan B. Anthony, of the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, do make, ordain, publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament, in manner and form following: First: I direct the payment of my funeral expenses,and my just debts,if any. Second: I give and bequeath to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the electro-type plates of the History of Woman Suffrage, together with the entire number of books that are printed, to be used in its educational department. Third: I give,devise and bequeath all of said rest,residue and remainder of my estate,both real and personal,to my sister Mary S.Anthony,my niece Lucy E. Anthony, and my friend Anna Shaw. 1 Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint the said Mary S. Anthony, Lucy E. Anthony, Anna H. Shaw and Rachel Foster Avery, executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. And I hereby request that no bond shall be demanded of my executors. In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal, the 4th day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four. Witnesses: U Irma B. Butler 2 U Carrie M. Bahl 3 U Susan B. Anthony (L.S.) We, whose names are hereto subscribed, do certify that Susan B. Anthony ,the testator,subscribed her name to this instrument in our presence, and in the presence of each other, at the City of Rochester, New York, on this 4th day of January,1904,and at the same time declared in our presence and hearing that the same was her Last Will and Testament, and requested us and each of us to sign our names thereto as witnesses to the execution thereof, and which we hereby do in the presence of the testator and of each other, and write opposite our names our respective places of residence. U Irma B. Butler, Rochester, N.Y. U Carrie M. Bahl, Rochester, N.Y. 4 january 1904 ^ 501 Y TMsS, with date in hand of Irma Butler, Estate of Susan B. Anthony, case file 1906–13, Surrogate Court of Monroe County, New York. Admitted to probate 18 June 1906. 1. Anna Shaw, Mary Anthony, and Lucy Anthony filed a memorandum in probate as follows: “On March 7th, 1906, Miss Anthony verbally requested Miss Mary Anthony and Miss Anna Shaw to see that the whole of what moneys she had should be put into the fund Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising for the Woman Suffrage cause. “It is the intention of the undersigned to comply with and carry out this last request.” 2. Irma B. Butler, a young married woman, worked for SBA as a stenographer and typewriter for at most a few months. Her start late in 1903 cannot be dated because SBA’s accounts for that year were not saved. A large payment to her on 5 February 1904 may mark the end of her employment. (SBA diary, 2 January 1904 and account pages for February, Film, 43:816ff.) 3. Caroline Mathilda Bahl (1859–1931), known as Carrie, moved to Rochester from Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, about 1903 and found work as SBA’s live-in housekeeper. After SBA’s death until 1913, Carrie Bahl stayed in Rochester near a married sister and changed her occupation from domestic to private-duty nurse. She was buried with her parents in Overton, Pennsylvania. (Federal Census, Sullivan County, Pa., 1900, and Rochester, 1910; city directories, 1904, 1906, 1911, 1914; George Streby, History of Forks Township and Forksville Boro. [Dushore, Pa., 1904], p. 39, in George Streby, History of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania: Memorial Edition [N.p., 1921]; St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Overton, Pa., on-line transcriptions of burial records.) ••••••••• 248 • SBA to Clara Spalding Ellis1 Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 19, 1904. My Dear Friend:— I am not a word artist. I can’t tell you at all of my belief of things beyond the grave, for I know nothing of the conditions there so I can’t figure with your people who think they know,but I can safely trust the same power that has provided all things well in this life,to take care of the future.Whether it shall be that I live in the form that I now do, or a different form, or whether I live...

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