POWER OF ATTORNEY
OF
ALEXANDER FANCHER

  

State of Arkansas    )

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County of Carroll      )

                                      )    Know all men by these presents that I, Alexander Fancher of the County of Carroll and the State of Arkansas, do hereby constitute and appoint James Fancher of the said county of Carroll and state of Arkansas as my true and lawful attorney to do and perform all such matters and things as full as I could do if I were present and do hereby further authorize my said attorney to incur and receipt for me and in name all the money that I am entitled to from the state of Arkansas for my services as a private in Captain Wm. C. Mitchell Company of volunteers as authorized by the governor of the state of Arkansas in quelling an insurrection in the county of Marion in said state of Arkansas and was mustered into service at Wm. Bellers on Crooked Creek in said county of Carroll, on the 30^th day of September, 1849.

Attested                       )

                                                )                         /s/ Alexander Fancher

John W. Peel, Clerk                )

 

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State of Arkansas     )

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County of Carroll      )          I,  John W. Peel, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Alexander Fancher personally appeared before me as such clerk as aforesaid and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing Power of Attorney for the purposes  therein expressed and set forth .

                                                  In testimony whereof I, as clerk as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Office this 19^th day of April AD 1850.

                                                      John W. Peel, Clerk

 

**Transcribed by Lynn-Marie Fancher