In the name of God amen. I resign my body to the tomb and my soul to God after which I will all my just debts and funeral expences paid.
It is my wish and desire that all my real and personal property be sold and all the money due me collected and equally divided among my six heirs after giving two hundred and fifty dollars to each of my daughters to make them equal with my two sons, John W. Yonts and Philip Yonts, who have received that amount in land in December 1857.
Signed the above as my last will and testament.
Philip Yonts
Attest
E.W. Coombs
Jacob Ham
Muhlenberg County Court
Jany 25, 1858
The foregoing last will and testament of Philip Younts was produced into court and proven to be the last will and testament of Philip Younts by the oaths of E. W. Coombs & Jacob Ham, the subscribing witnesses thereto, which was ordered to and which is truly recorded. Witness my hand as clerk date above written.
J.H. Reno clk
Source: Muhlenberg County Kentucky Will Book 3, p. 177.
Updated August 23, 2022