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Joel Jenkins, power-of-attorney to Minerva Jenkins, 26 April 1849, Greene County, Missouri, Deed Book E:232, Missouri State Archives, microfilm #2482.

Know all men by these presents that I Joel Jenkins of the County of Greene in the

State of Missouri do hereby constitute and appoint my wife Minerva Jenkins my

true and lawful Attorney in form and in my name to contract bargain and sell all

or any part of my real-estate and to receive payment or any assurances or

securities therefor, and receipt for the same, in such times as she shall deem

expedient, and to make execute and deliver for me and in my name any conveyance

or conveyances thereof hereby ratifying and confirming all that she may do for

me and in my name in the premises as my attorney as aforesaid. Witness my hand

and seal this 26th day of April AD 1849.

Joel Jenkins (seal)

State of Missouri

County of Greene

Be if remembered that on the 26th day of April AD 1849 at the County aforesaid

before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace of said County

personally appeared Joel Jenkins of said County who is personally known to me to

be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument as party thereto,

and he then and there acknowledged the within instrument to be his act and deed

for the purposes therein expressed. Given under my hand the day and year above

written.

J.G. Bradshaw J.P.

I Joshua Davis Recorder in and for Greene County do certify that the foregoing

instrument was filed in my Office for Record on the 21st day of October 1850 and

that the same is duly Recorded on the 30th day of October AD 1850

J. Davis Recorder.

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