Jesse’s Cousin Callie Minerva was born to Hannah Reynolds and her second husband, William Tyler Johnson on June 14, 1872 in Arkansas according to federal census records. The family was transient, living in southern Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas before finally settling in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri, where Hannah’s and William’s families lived.

Callie’s mother and Sarah Reynolds‘ sister Hannah died in 1876. It looks like William then sent his stepson Thomas Washington Allen away to live with Sarah Reynolds and her husband James Bench. William moved in with his parents and Callie and two of her siblings are listed in the 1880 federal census with him.

On March 1, 1888, Callie Johnson married George Franklin Smith in Chillicothe, Missouri. Between 1889 and 1891, the couple and their oldest child Pearl had moved to California. In the 1900 federal census, Frank is working in a sawmill in Mott, Siskiyou, California (page 21), and Callie and four of their children are renting a house in Sacramento River, Shasta, California, presumably where Jesse, John, and Tom visit during their bachelor trip in 1901. In the same federal census for Mott, Tom is also listed as a border (page 11).

Callie and Frank had eight kids: Pearl Bessie (b. 1888), William Roy (b. 1891), Franklin Ray (b. 1893), Olga (b. 1896), Cecil Wayne (b. 1900), Vondel Viola (b. 1903), Florence Evelyn (b. 1907), and Alfred Alvin (b. 1909).

Callie and her younger kids cannot easily be found in the 1910 federal census, and her husband Frank is living alone. This might not be unusual since he seems to have worked away from home in 1900. Siblings Olga and Cecil are living with their older sister Pearl. Callie died on January 11, 1912.