The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, February 25, 1909 A fortune of over $50,000 in cash, in addition to valuable real estate holdings, was distributed among relatives, charitable organizations, churches and various societies by the provisions of the last will and testament of the late COL. EDWARD A. TEMPLE, filed yesterday with Probate Commissioner Ed Mahan in district court. MR. TEMPLE was the organizer and President of the Bankers' Life Insurance Company. He died in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 12. His nearest surviving relative is his sister, CECILIA A. TEMPLE, who has been his housekeeper in his home in Des Moines. He bequeaths her $5,000 and all the property, both real and personal, which may remain after the provisions of his will have been carried out. By one provision of the will a bronze tablet, costing $1,000 will be placed in the historical building to perpetuate the memory of William Salter, George Temple, Levi Hager, William B. Remey, Bernhart Henn, Anthony W. Carpenter and William F. Coolbaugh, pioneer residents of Burlington. He remembers every member of the families of his deceased wife and his brothers with $1,000 with the exception of several to whom he bequeaths larger amounts. His brothers are GEORGE D. TEMPLE, CYRUS F. TEMPLE and AUGUSTUS D. TEMPLE. To LOUISE F. TEMPLE, daughter of CYRUS F. TEMPLE, he gives $2,000; to KATE E. FREEMAN, a niece, he gives $3,000; to HARRIETT E. SWETT, a niece, he leaves $2,000, and to SARAH G. JOHNSON, a niece, he bequeaths $2,000. Church, libraries and societies which he has proved for in his codicil are as follows: The Aspen Grove Cemetery Association of Burlington - $300. Chariton Public Library of Chariton - $300 Iowa Children's Home Society - $1,000 Roadside Settlement Association - $1,000 Home of the Aged - $1,000 St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Des Moines - $1,000 Endowment fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Chariton - $1,000 St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of Chariton - $1,000 Iowa Humane Society - $1,000 He provides that all the life insurance he has in the Bankers' Life Association shall go to the benefit of the entire estate. In addition to these distributions he names in his will numerous real estate holdings which he died seized of, naming the Iowa Loan and Trust company as trustee to look after his property. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert May 24, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net