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PROBATE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM

Will of Titanic Victim Frederick Sutton

Atlantic City Daily Press

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Frederick Sutton, Coffee Importer, Leaves $50,000 and Upwards to Family
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The will of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, N. J., who lost his life in the wreck of the steamship Titanic, was probated yesterday afternoon in the office of the Surrogate, Reeze, of Camden county.

The value of the estate is $50,000 and upwards. According to the terms of the will. Mr. Sutton’s widow is to receive two-thirds of the estate, and all personal property, while his daughter, Mrs. Frederick Tomlin, whose husband is a physician, of Haddonfield, is to get one-third during her life. Upon her death her children are to get the interest. Should the widow die first, the will directs that the entire estate is to revert to Mrs. Tomlin. Asa G. Wing, of the Provident Life and Trust Company, of Philadelphia, and Americus R. Underdown, of Haddonfield, are named as the executors of the estate.

Immediately after the will had been probated the Consul General of Halifax was notified that Dr. Frederick Tomlin, Mr. Sutton’s son-in-law, was authorized to receive the body, which has been recovered and brought to Halifax today by the cable-ship Mackey-Bennett. [sic] The remains will be brought to Haddonfield for interment. Mr. Sutton, who was a coffee importer with a place of business on South Second street, Philadelphia, was also president of the Collingswood National Bank, of Collingswood, N. J.

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Encyclopedia Titanica (2007) PROBATE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM (Atlantic City Daily Press, Tuesday 30th April 1912, ref: #5526, published 20 April 2007, generated 4th December 2024 12:40:25 AM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/probate-will-titanic-victim.html