Sacramento County Biographies

J. M. OVERMEYER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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ALABAMA TOWNSHIP.
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	Lives six miles from Galt, which is his Post Office, and 16 
miles from Ione; was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1835; he moved with his 
parents to La Porte County, Indiana, in 1837, and lived there until 1843; then 
went to Rock Island County, Illinois, and remained until 1854, when he came to 
California, and engaged in farming and teaming until 1865, in El Dorado County; 
he came to this county then, and stopped about a year, when he removed to Santa 
Cruz County, and lived there until 1873; then he returned to this County, and 
has lived on his present place since 1876.  Mr. O. was married in 1865 to Sarah 
Martha Douglass, a native of Missouri, who has borne him five children--three 
sons and two daughters--all of whom are living.  He owns three hundred sixty 
acres of land, which, with improvements, are worth about $3000.

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.