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MARY COUTS BURNETT. Mrs. Mary C. Burnett, daughter of the late J. R. Couts, came to Weatherford in early childhood, where she grew to womanhood with the best advantages that the country afforded. She married S. B. Burnett of Fort Worth, one of the wealthy men of Texas. After his death, and one year before her demise, she executed a declaration of trust, naming five trustees, such trust to endure until twenty years following the death of the last trustee. By the terms of this trust, he gave her entire fortune, consisting of some $4,500,000, the net income therefrom to be expended solely for the support of professors’ chairs and for scholarships for worthy students until the expiration of the trust, at which time the corpus of her estate goes to the institution. This constitutes the largest bequest ever received by any educational institution in the Southwest.
History of Parker County and the Double Log Cabin:
being a brief symposium of the early history of Parker County,
together with short biographical sketches of early settlers and
their trials, Weatherford, Tex.: Herald Pub. Co., 1937, page
138. View
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