Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

valet to my husband for twelve years; to John Kelly, gardener and care taker of our home in Sacramento, Cal. cor 8th and N Streets for thirty nine years, to Ah Wing servant for eighteen years, to each and every one I give and bequeath the sum of One Thousand Dollars each ($1,000) in gold coin. I give and bequeath to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sacramento California, a corporation sole, and to be by him just under the management, care, and control of a community of nuns to be selected by him, our dear old home corner 8th and N Streets Sacramento California, with all its contents therein, all the grounds surrounding it and outbuildings, and by them to be appropriated to the care and a home for poor destitute children from the age of six weeks to eight years; orphans half orphans foundlings of both sex independent of color or religious creed, to be clothed, fed, taught by them and at the age of eight