Sophira Elizabeth Bench Smith, 1867 – 1939

Sophira Elizabeth Bench Smith holding child, Bench Farm, Utica, Missouri, 1904

Sophira is the daughter of James J Bench and Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds, older sister to Jesse, born on October 3, 1867.  On May 29, 1889, she married Robert Thomas Smith Jr.  She is mother to George Randall Smith.

Sophira Elizabeth Bench Smith, Chillicothe, Missouri, 1893