3.1.2.1.3. TRANSCRIPTION

Source:
Gibson County, Tennessee
Deed Book “Z”, pp. 155-156

(Page 155)

Joseph J.J. Hale & et al                            Registered March 6th 1867
Power Atty.                                         State of Arkansas
To Thomas Walker                                    Ouachita County

Know all men by these presents, that we Joseph J.J. Hale and Martha H. Umsted of the County of Ouachita and William A. Clements and Mary Clements his wife of the County of Lafayette, all of the State of Arkansas, have made and constituted and appointed and by these presents as Make, Constitute & appoint Thomas Walker of the County of Gibson in the State of Tennessee our True & Lawful Attorney for us & in our name Place and Stead to Collect and receive any and all money Properties Goods and Chattles Which is or May become our onto us or any of us from the Estate of Mary Shelton, Dec’d.  Given and Granting unto our said Attorney, full Power and authority to do and perform all and Every act & thing Whatsoever Requisite and Necessary To be done in and about the Premises as fully To all interests and purposes as we Might or could as if personally Present with Full Power of Substation and revocation hereby ratifying and confirming and complying al that our said Attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do and cause to be done by Virtue thereof.

(Page 156)

In Testimony Whereby we have hereinto set our hands and Seals this Twenty-sixth 26 day of January Eighteen hundred and sixty-seven 1867.

United States Stamp                                 Joseph J.J. Hale   
J.J.J.H. Jan. 26 1867                               Martha H. Umsted
Fifty Cents                                         W.H. Clements
                                                    Mary Clements

The State of Arkansas
County of Ouachita

On this 26 day of January eighteen hundred and sixty-seven 1867, Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting and commissioned Judge of the County & Probate Court of said County Joseph J.J. Hale, Martha H. Umsted, William A. Clements and Mary Clements, his wife, whose names appear upon the within & foregoing Power of Attorney, all Personally were known to be the identical persons therein mentioned and acknowledged that they had execute the same for the purposes & considerations therein mentioned and set forth & her certify.

In Testimony Whereby I hereunto set My hand & seal on the day & date last above written.
                                                    J.M. Stinnell
                                                    C & P Judge

The State of Arkansas
County of Oauchita

I, Jno. G. Browning, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Ouachita and State of Arkansas hereby Certify that James M. Stinnell whose name is to the within certificate of acknowledgement is and was at the time he signed the same Judge of the County and probate Court of Ouachita County State aforesaid Duly Elected Commissioned and qualified as such and sure faith and Credit is sure and should be given to all of his applicable acts as such.

In Testimony Whereby I have hereinto set my hand and seal of office in Camden, this 28th January 1867

Seal                                                John G. Browning, Clerk              
O. Co. Ark.

State of Arkansas
County of Ouachita

I, James M. Stinnell, presiding Judge of the County & Probate Court for said County and State herby Certify that John G. Browning whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate is and was at the time he signed the same Clerk of the Circuit Probate and County Courts for the County of Ouachita duly commissioned and qualified and his Certificate is in one form of law.

Given unto my hand and private seal having no seal of office, this 28 January A.D. 1867.

Filed March 4, 1867                                 J.M. Stinnell    
At 12 O’Clock N.                                    C & P Judge
J.A. Marrison, Rgr.

TRANSCRIPTION NOTES

	No changes have been made in the spelling, punctuation or format of this document.  Joseph J.J. Hale, Martha Umsted, and Mary Clements, along with her husband William H. Clements, were all residents of the state of Arkansas and  appointed this power of attorney to Thomas Walker, a resident of Gibson Co., Tennessee, to act in their behalf to collect any distributions arising from the estate of Mary Jackson Hale Shelton that they were due from the settlement of her estate according to her will.  This same Thomas Walker had previously been the administrator of the estate in 1855 of Thomas E. Hale, the brother of both Joseph J.J. Hale and Mary Clements, and the half-brother to Martha Umsted.  Martha Umsted being listed without her husband would indicate that he was probably deceased at this point in time, or else he too would be a part of this legal proceeding.
	Joseph J.J. Hale is found in a related court action on the sale of the land of Mary Jackson Hale Shelton’s land named as John J.J. Hale, suggesting that his actual name was Joseph John J. Hale.  His marriage to Minerva J. Walker on August 18, 1849, would suggest another connection to Thomas Walker, although a direct connection has not been documented at this time.  It is not known why it took to January 26, 1867 before this power of attorney document to be filed, as Mary Jackson Hale Shelton had died in Gibson Co., Tennessee on April 16, 1865 and the land from her estate had been sold by Nathaniel Montgomery Hale, the estate’s administrator, on January 20th, 1866.  This could suggest that there were less than cordial relations between the heirs that had removed to Arkansas and those that stayed in Tennessee.    

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