6/1945 - 41949: When we moved back from Henderson, Dad took the money he had saved and put a down payment on his own truck. The man who owned the grocery store in town carried the papers on the truck.
Actually, back then, Daddy was used to doing business with a handshake instead of signed papers. A man's word was his bond.
Daddy paid a sum each month until the truck was paid off. He had used our home and 5 acres as collateral. Daddy didn't not always received receipts when he mad his payments. After Dad had the truck was paid off, Mr ... sent a lawyer's letter saying Dad was in arrears of his payment and was foreclosing on the note.
Mr.... was a fine upstanding man in the town. He never drank or smoked. He went to Church and paid his tithing. He held a Church calling and sat up in the stands each Sunday.
Dad was very fortunate to find a wonderful lawyer, a man who never asked for more in payment for services rendered than he thought Lee Laub could pay. He was able to find enough evidence to back up Dad's claim to having paid the man. Other people surfaced who had been taken unfair advantage of by him.
Mr... saved us children from being kicked out into the street by one of those Moss Backs Mamma was always telling us about.
I finally asked Mom what she meant by the term Moss Back. She said it was a person who looks down on others, always thinking of themselves right, and unwilling to change.
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