Mrs. Newcomb’s Will

New Orleans May 12, 1898

Aware as I am, of the uncertainty of life, I, Josephine Louise Newcomb, widow of Warren Newcomb, do make this my last will and testament.

First. I have resided of late years in different places, but have made the
City of New Orleans my permanent home, because I here witness and enjoy the
growth of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College,’ a department of the Tulane
University of Louisiana which I have founded, and has been named in honor of the
memory of my beloved daughter.

I have implicit confidence that the ‘Administrators of the Tulane
Educational Fund’ will continue to use and apply the benefactions and property I
have bestowed and may give for the present and future development of this
department of the University known as the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
which engrosses my thoughts and purposes, and is endeared to me by such hallowed
associations.

Second. I have no forced heirs, I owe no debts; and I hereby revoke all
wills of a date anterior to this.

I hereby make the following special legacies and bequests:

To the Greenwood Cemetery a corporation organized and existing under
and by virtue of Chapter 298 of the laws of the State of New York passed in
1838, the sum of Two thousand ($ 2,000) dollars for the care of lots numbered
17,036 and 17,037 and it is my desire, that at my death, my remains may be
placed with the loved ones there at rest.

To Alice Bowman of New Orleans Louisiana five thousand ($ 5,000) Dollars.

To William Robertson of Charleston South Carolina one thousand ($ 1,000)
Dollars.

Third. With the exception of the special legacies and bequests herein above
stated and made, I hereby give and bequeath to the ‘Administrators of the Tulane
Educational Fund’ of New Orleans, the whole of the property, real, personal and
mixed of which I am now possessed or which I may leave at the time of my death,
and to that end and purpose I do hereby name and constitute the said
‘Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund’ to be my universal legatee.

I appoint my cousin and friend Joseph A. Hincks and my friend B. V. B. Dixon
to be Executors giving them seizin and detainer of my estate and requiring no
bond from them.

Thus wholly have I written dated and signed this my last will and testament
at New Orleans Louisiana this 12th day of May, 1898.”

Josephine Louise Newcomb

Matter of Newcomb, 192 N.Y. 238, 84 N.E. 950, 1908 N.Y. LEXIS 876 (N.Y. 1908).