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EXHIBIT 24.14
POWER OF ATTORNEY
THE UNDERSIGNED director of Park Meridian Financial Corporation (the "Company")
hereby appoints Kevin T. Kennelly, Ralph N. Strayhorn, III and Bryan F. Kennedy,
III, and each of them singly, as the undersigned's lawful agent and
attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for and on
behalf and in the name of the undersigned, to execute and file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement
on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), for
the purpose of registering shares of the Company's common stock to be issued
upon the exercise of options granted under the Park Meridian Bank Stock Option
Plan for Non-employee Directors, the Park Meridian Bank Employee Stock Option
Plan and the Employment and Stock Option Agreement, dated October 1, 1991, as
amended, between Kevin T. Kennelly and the Bank (the "Plans"), and any and all
amendments, including post-effective amendments, and exhibits to such
registration statement, and any and all applications or other documents to be
filed with the Commission or elsewhere pertaining to such registration statement
or amendments, with full power and authority to take or cause to be taken all
other actions that in the judgment of such person may be necessary or
appropriate to effect the registration under the Act of the shares of the
Company's common stock offered or to be offered pursuant to the Plans.
EXECUTED on the 25th day of May, 2000.
/s/ C. Rex Welton
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C. Rex Welton
