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Williams as a hotel and boarding house. To have and to 

 hold the same unto the said Caroline Morisse forever ; and 

 also to my said sister Caroline I hereby devise durino- her 

 life time, the house and lot on Shaw avenue Place, next 

 south to the northwestern corner house devised in this my 

 last will and testament for her life time to Mrs Eebecca 

 Edom ; and at the death of my said sister, I devise that the 

 house and lot revert back as the. property of the said 

 botanical garden, they the said Trustees to pay taxes and 

 insurance on said house and 'lot during the life time of my 

 said sister Caroline Morisse. I further devise and bequeath 

 to my said sister Caroline Morisse the sum of five thousand 

 (5000) Dollars. 



2nd — I give and bequeath to Mrs Rebecca Edom my 

 house keeper at Tower Grove and Locust street the prop- 

 erty on Poplar street between Twelvth and Thirteenth 

 streets, fronting seventy ( 70) feet more or less on the north 

 side of Poplar street, and extending north seventy ( 70) feet 

 to a private alley, bounded east by an alley, west by the 

 east wall of a row of five brick houses standing on said 

 lot, south by Poplar street and north by self. To have 

 and to hold to the said Rebecca Edom, and heirs and as- 

 signs forever. 



In further consideration of the services of said Mrs 

 Rebecca Edom, as housekeeper and nurse in my old age, in 

 addition [17] to the property devised in this paragraph of 

 my will, I hereby devise and bequeath to the said Rebecca 

 Edom the sum of five thousand ($5000) Dollars, and 

 further hereby devise to the said Rebecca, a certain lot of 

 about eighty feet front or width with a dwelling house 

 thereon, being the northwestern house of the ten houses 

 erected by me on Shaw avenue place, bounded north by 

 Tonty street and west by Mercy street, during her lifetime 

 and at her death I hereby devise the same to the Trust- 

 ees of the Missouri Botanical garden ; they the said Trust- 

 ees to pay taxes, and insurance on said house and lot dur- 

 ing the lifetime of the said Rebecca. Also I further bequeath 



