George Randall Smith, 1890 – 1957

Randall’s signature in a copy of Idylls of the King, March 31, 1900.

Randall was born on January 26, 1890 to Robert Thomas Smith and Sophia Elizabeth Bench Smith.  He was Jesse’s nephew.  Randall gave Jesse a high school graduation present mentioned in the first entry of Jesse’s diary.

Possibly George Randall Smith at 14, and possibly Dollar the dog, Bench Farm, Utica, Missouri, 1904