Word: barnetts
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Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...
Died. Jackson Barnett, 90, "wealthiest" Oklahoma Indian; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Death did not end, however, the story of the richest U. S. Indian. Indian Commissioner John Collier had the burial post-poned because Barnett's ex-wife wanted to bury him in California while some of his Indian relatives wanted him brought back to Oklahoma. Before the funeral Hubert Howard Barnett, 27, claiming to be a nephew, asked to be made administrator of his estate. And Mrs. Lowe said that under California law she would demand a 50% share of the estate...
Already the Government has got back from the Chase National Bank with which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions. It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her. It is also suing Lawyer McGugin for the sum he received...
...into an argument with Speaker Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that the judge who voided Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe remarked in his decision: "The conclusion is inescapable on the evidence that Mrs. Lowe and her Attorney McGugin were working in harmony and complete accord with the Indian agent to gain control of a large portion of the bonds...