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STATE OF MISSOURI, SS. County of Jackson, In the Probate Court---In Vacation. BE IT REMEMBERED, That the 16th day of December on , 19.38 personally appeared before the undersigned, Clerk of the Probate Court, of the County and State aforesaid Carlin P. Smith and Gordon R. Boyer the subscribing witness to the annexed will of. Elizabeth C. Wallace and being by me first duly sworn, depose and say that the said. Elizabeth C. Wallace the testat rix subscribed the same in their presence, and published the said will or instrument of writing, as h er last will that S he, the said testati trix , was at time of publishing 1er said will, of sound mind and more than twenty-one years of age, and that they, the said deponents, attested the said will as witnesses thereto, at the request of said testat. rix by subscribing their names to the same, in the presence of the said testat rix and in the presence of each other. Carlin P. Smith Gordon R. Boyer B 3454 PAGE 154 X 661 PAGE 483 Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year first above written. the IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in the City of Kansas City, this 16th day of December, A.D., 1938 SEAL Edward J. McGovern Clerk. STATE OF MISSOURI, ss. County of Jackson. I, EDWARD J. McGOVERN, Clerk of the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, having examined the foregoing instrument of writing, signed by Elizabeth C. Wallace, and purporting to be the last will and testament of Elizabeth C. Wallace, deceased, and having heard the testimony of Carlin P. Smith and Gordon R. Boyer subscribing witnesses thereto in relation to the execution of the same, do declare and adjudge said instrument of writing to be last will and testament of Elizabeth C. Wallace deceased, late of Jackson County, and record the same as such. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in the City of Kansas City, this 16th day of December, 19.38. Edward J. McGovern SEAL Clerk.