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A Letter from Mrs Devore To Charlotte Mac Culloch
dated 30th September 1931
Mrs Otie was Aunt Virginia Campbell’s sister. Mother
told me her husband was a gambler. They fared well
while Uncle R. and Aunt V. lived. She had several
children. Otie and her family married an Anderson,
then one of the Andersons married a McClellan, and
this young lawyer is the son , and great grandson
of Mrs Otie.
The will stated that the household goods are to be
sold and divided among his cousins Betty Otie’s
Anderson’s grand children. Specifications to the
effect they are not to quarrel and if necessary they,
the household goods, are to be sold and money divided.
Aunt Virginia’s diamonds are appraised at some
$5000.
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In a statement enclosed in a letter to Charlotte MacCulloch,
dated 10th Dec. 1931, Mrs Margaret Johnson of Kansas City,
states that that the estate of Hugh Campbell, of ST Louis, who died
on 9th August 1931 was about $1,200,000, and
that the estate of Hazlett Campbell was now about
$1, 600,000.
An effort was being made by the Mc Clellands,
Hugh and Hazlett’s mother,s people, to break
the will. Their lawyers are Leahy, Saunders,
and Walker, 1105 National Bank of Commerce
Building; ST.Louis, Missouri, who appear to
be taking up the case ‘’on spec’’, and wish
to charge each for whom they act.- nothing
if the suit fails; if successful 1/3 of what
the persons receives from the
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Hugh Campbell estate.
They also ask 10 per cent of all each person receives from
Both Hugh and Hazlett’s estates for proving right to inherit .
Transcribed by Brian McCrory
