Park...cont. from previous page.
ing information about the life, death
and will of Dr. David Rogers.
He was one of those mysterious
characters about whom communities
never tire in surmising and conjecturing strange things, and about which
little actual proof could be adduced.
Concerning him, Madam Gossip was
very sure he had been most severely
disappointed in love in early life, and
that he in consequence resolved upon
a hermit life, and that he accumulated
a large amount of money, which he had
hid or deposited in various places. We
believe that rumor could not safely
estimate this amount at less than
$50,000. He had no relatives in this
section of the country, nor has there
any been made known since his death,
of closer kin than a nephew. After his
death, a will was found among his
effects, which he had made while in
Ohio, in one of his visits there. It is
reported that the will was written for
him by M.R. Waite, now Chief-Justice
of the United States. It was entered
on probate in the LaGrange Circuit
Court, and the executors named duly
appointed, when some of his nephews
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appeared and contested the will, and
after several terms of court, it was
finally decided void on “the account of
indefiniteness, the terms orphan poor
and other destitute persons,” being
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