POWER OF ATTORNEY.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I Thomas Yarborough of the County of Bath and State of Kentuck am one of the children and legal heir at Law—of Mary Yarborough (decsd) the said County of Bath and who is the widow of Randolph Yarborough deceased, & from Reputation is the Idetacle man who was a soldier in the Amry of the Revolution, war—an that his widow—the aforesaid Mary Yarborough (decsd) made application for a pension from said county of Bath, in her lifetime to the Pension office at Washington DC under act of 4th July 1836 of congress—do hereby constitute and appoint John S Edwards Irrevocably—revoking any other power of attorny hertofore given in the premises of Washington City my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of the United States, before any Department thereof, any and all claim or claims I have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts of 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3rd March, 1843, 17th June, 1844, 2nd February, 1848, and 29th July, 1848; as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March, 1818, 15th May, 1828, and 7th June, 1832, and all other Acts bearing upon the interest of said claims to date, of the Congress of the United States.
Said Attorney is moreover authorized in my name to demand at any Department of the said Government, a Reconsideration of any Decision hitherto or hereafter to be given touching pay interest, and to obtain from any Department, or the Archives thereof, any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to, or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.
Said Attorney is moreover authorized to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificate of Pension and Claim, and forward said Certificate of Pension to— of Mt. Vernon, Rockeast'e County, Kentucky, and he, my Attorney, will hand the same over to me.By virtue of these Presents, I have hereunto subscribed my name his 28th day of January 1854
STATE OF Kentucky
COUNTY OF Bath}
BE IT KNOWN, That, on the 28th day of January 1854, before the me Charles Glover the subscriber a [Justice] of the peace ^Presiding Judge of the Bath County Court^ in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Yarborough the above named.
Subscribed to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the Signing, Scaling and Delivering the same to be his own voluntary Act and Deed, for the purposes therein set forth.
In Testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name.
ChGlover P. JBCC
J. P.
State of Kentucky
Bath County} Ss.
I R H Conner Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do Certify that Charles Glover whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing Certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same the Presiding Judge of the Court aforesaid duly Commissioned and Sworn
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 28th day of January 1854
R.H.Conner Clerk
