Five days after entering State Prison on a bank fraud conviction, Henry S. Stanback gave lawyer Glenn S. McBrayer power of attorney to handle a deed of trust executed by Thomas and Victoria Coley.

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In the 1930 census of Crossroads township, Wilson County: farmer Thomas Coley, 55; wife Victoria, 44; daughters Mary, 15, Pennie, 13, and Sallie, 9; nephew Richard, 27, and niece Pauline, 21, both laborers; and lodger Tobie Durden, 75, laborer.

Wilson [County, North Carolina] Power of Attorney Records 1859-1961, http://www.familysearch.org.