Israel’s wife, Elizabeth Carter Trask, received household furniture, plates, horses and carriage provisions, firewood, hay and grain and the equivalent of more than $700,000 today upon his death in Massachusetts in 1835. She also received all real estate in Springfield which included the house they lived in valued at nearly $250,000 today and currently ran as the Elias Carter House, available to crash in for up to $225 a night. Their children Israel C., William E., Edward, Eliza, Sarah and their heirs received “the residue and remainder of [his] estate both real and personal;” held in trust until each child reached the age of 25, with interest paid to them annually. The most valuable yet insidious notation on Israel’s estate inventory was not the property listed, shares in the Ohio Life and Trust Company, or even the pews endowed at the First Parish of Springfield, a known abolitionist ministry, but what was hiding behind words written on two lines on a secondary page. Bare eyes see $140,000 in debt due to Israel by his brother James. But a true vetting and grit and grind genealogy research behind that debt, which is equivalent to $3.2 million today, shows that the money was used to maintain their family plantation empire. Israel had been directly out of the business for 13 years, but like the mafia or even the Rolling 60’s Crips he was never truly out. It was for life. The debt was property of Israel’s children, including Eliza, and proved to be the most lucrative part of the inheritance they received. In later years, their legacy accounts had ballooned to the equivalent of $640,000 today.