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Posted: 15 Feb 2003 4:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Jun 2005 4:43PM GMT
Looking for info on the parents of Smallwood Ecton who married Sallie Reed.

AFTER THE DEATH
OF
HIS WIFE
ELIZABETH (ECTON) BAKER



Know all men by these presents that I Cuthbert B. Baker of the County of Tazewell of the state of Illinois, guardian of Sally E. Baker, Nancy J. Baker, Martha A. Baker, Minerva L. Baker, John S. Baker, William C. Baker children of the said Cuthbert B. Baker and Grandchildren of Smallwood Acton deceased, late of Clark County in the State of Kentucky, the said Sally E. Baker, Nancy J. Baker, Martha A. Baker, Minerva L. Baker, John S. Baker,William C. Baker being also residents of said County of Tazewell in said State of Illinois, and also being heirs at law of the said decedent Smallwood Acton, their mother who is now deceased, was a daugther of the said decedent Smallwood Acton deceased do hereby and by these presents nominate, constitute, and appoint my friend Marcus C. Evans of the County of Clark and State of Kentucky my true and lawful attorney in fact for me and in my name as such guardian to ask, demand, receive and receit for me and in my name all money and property to my said children and wards from the estate of their said deceased grandfather the said Smallwood Acton and now in the hands of Francis and Thomas S. Acton, or which may come into the hands of said Francis and Thomas S. Acton as Administrators of the said decedent Smallwood Acton, and also as guardian of said children herein before named, the said Francis and Thomas S. Acton being such administrators and the said Francis Acton being guardian by appointment made by the County Court of Clark in the State of Kentucky, and my said attorney in fact is hereby authorized and empowered to institute any action or suit either in the Clark County Court or the Clark Curcuit Court for the purpose of recovering the full share of said decedents estate coming to my said children and wards as aforesaid from the said Francis and Thomas S. Acton as such administrator, and from Francis Acton as guardian, and to that end my attorney in fact for me in my name as such guardian is authorized and empowered to execute for me and in my name any bond or other instrument of writing that may be required in order to obtain said money and property so coming to my said children, and when done all of the acts of my said attorney in fact to be binding upon me as if done by me in proper person, Hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney in fact shall lawfully do for me and in my, or in the names of my said wards in the premises. In witness whereof the said Cuthbert B. Baker hath hereunto subscribed his name and affixed his seal this 14th day of May, 1855 at Winchester, Kentucky.

Cuthbert B. Baker (Seal)


Deed Book No. 37, pgs. 302-3, Clark County Clerks Office, Winchester, Kentucky.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
NahumSwallow 15 Feb 2003 11:31PM GMT 
NahumSwallow 15 Feb 2003 11:40PM GMT 
lomil 2 Mar 2003 5:11AM GMT 
lomil 2 Mar 2003 5:32AM GMT 
JerryCox22 9 Aug 2003 4:16AM GMT 
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