The township assessor came to assess A.D. Simmons, and he asked who the young man was. A.D. told him it was his new son-in-law. Then the assessor asked him, “Has he anything?” When told he could see him, he asked.”Young man, what have you to be assessed?” Overton answered, “I have a silver watch, a six shooter and a wife.”
The state script he drew while in the Militia he partially exchanged for his wife a calico dress which cost 50 cents per yard. “That’s the way the money goes, Pop goes the Weasel.”
The next spring in 1866 they rented a small farm south of Grandpa Simmons’ and farmed that and part of his father-in-law’s farm.
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