McCracken County Will Book B, Pgs. 149-150:

                 In the Name of God, Amen.

                 I Adam Whitelauf, of the County of McCracken, State of Kentucky, a farmer, being of
                 Sound Mind but coporally sick and knowing the uncertainty of life and death do hereby
                 make and declare this my last will and testament.
                 To wit

                 1st) my will is that immediately after my death all my lawfull debts and funeral expenses
                 shall be paid out of my estate

                 2nd) I will and bequeath unto my wife Eve Whitelauf all my real and personal property
                 to have and to hold the same during the term of her natural life

                 3rd) my will is that after the death of my said wife Eve all of the property shall be divided
                 equally among all my children with the exception of my son Jacob and my Stepson Fred
                 to whom, namely to Jacob and Fred my stepson I bequeath to each of them the sum of
                 five dollars and they shall have no other share of my Estate.
                 All the rest of my estate I wish at the death of my wife to be divided equally among my
                 other eight children so that each of those eight children is entitled to an equal share
                 of the remainder of my Estate.

                 4th) I hereby appoint said wife Eve as Administratrix and Executress of all the Estate
                 during the term of her natural life and after her death my will is that my son George be
                 appointed Administrator and that both of them, namely my wife Eve and my son
                 George be admitted by the County Court of McCracken County without being
                 obliged to give security.

                 5th) I declare this to be my last will and testament in presence of August Wurth,
                 John Wurth, and John Kettler all of McCracken and in presences of each other
                 hereunto I affix my hand and seal on the twenty first day of Augustin the year
                 of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Seventy seven written all on
                 one [sheaf?] of paper this being the fourth and last page thereof.

                  Witnesses
                  August Wurth
                  John Wurth
                  John Kottler

                 State of Kentucky
                 McCracken County Court
                 At a Regular Term of the McCracken County Court held for the County aforesaid at the
                 Court House in the City of Paducah on the 14th day of January 1878 the foregoing
                 Last Will and Testament of Adam Whitelauf, deceased was produced in open Court and
                 proven by the oaths of August Wurth and John Wurth, two of the subscribing witnesses
                 thereto to be the true last will and testament of the said Adam Whitelauf deceased and said
                 will was ordered to be recorded which together with this certificate is done accordingly.
                Given under my hand this 28th day of January, 1878.