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$15,000,000 BEQUEST MAKES HER
TEXAS' RICHEST GIRL

Helena Independent, 6 Aug 1922


Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 5.-
Society dowagers of Texas are busily building romances for Miss Anne Burnett. For she has suddenly become the most eligible young woman in the southwest.

These are some of the things Miss Burnett owns:

Three great stock ranches whose area is more than half as large as all Rhode Island.

Two skyscrapers in Fort Worth.

A home in Fort Worth that cost $100,000.

Liberty bonds valued at $200,000.

Stocks and bonds that bring her entire holdings to $15,000,000.

It is all hers because her grandfather, Captain S. B. Burnett, regarded as the wealthiest man in Texas, died recently and left her the bulk of his estate. And he cut off his only surviving son, Tom L. Burnett, with $25,000 a year.

A provision of the will was that Tom, himself a wealthy racher, will get nothing if he tries to break the will. Administrators say there will be no contest.

Tom was recently divorced from his wife, formerly Lucille Mulhall, who with her father took part in rodeo shows.

Captain Burnett was a Texas cowboy who fought Indians and hunted buffalo. When he died at 74 he was a banker, rancher and capitalist. He started on borrowed money and built up his holdings until he owned three raches covering 500,000 acres stocked with high-bred cattle. Some of the biggest Texas oil wells were drilled on his property.






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