Eliza
Brown
Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 May 1887, page 4
NEWPORT
The will of Miss Eliza Brown was admitted to probate in the
County Court at Newport yesterday. She devises that her three sisters who
survive her shall have all her property after paying the following legacies.
To each of the daughters of her cousin John Brown of Scotland, $125; to Margaret Brown, $125; to Rev W D Rosseter of Cincinnati $125. At the death of her three sisters she gives all her property to Rev Thomas Gott Livingston, of Addingham, England, for the sole benefit of himself and his heirs.
She names as her executors her three sisters without bond. In case that there is ever a ? between the sisters as to the disposition of the estate, she names Robert Johnson and Ben Hopkins, of the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, as her referees. In the closing paragraph of the will she fires a little hot shot into her relatives. She says:
"Not a penny of my money shall be given to a member of members of my family, I having been from childhood the victim, through the efforts of my family, of the most cruel and inslignant persecution and slander, they having sought to robe me of my good name and fair reputation; and this I do not do revengefully, but in the fear of God and a womanly sense of duty to myself."
She left considerable property including real estate and bonds. She died a few weeks ago and was sixty years of age and over at the time of her demise. That she was a victim of some great wrong there seems to be no doubt, but it remains a family secret. she was on of four sisters, three of whom survive her and now reside on York street in Newport.