https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground_Gunfight
AND https://web.archive.org/web/20120320150639/http://asoac.org/bulletins/94_mcknight_arizona.pdf
The birth certificate for his son Ellsworth in arizona, indicates race of both George Jr. and mother LuVenia Sizemore Hill as "Mexican." This is not correct, they were not Latino.
His father George died, killed in a gun fight. And Mrs. Hill had been a Smith and from Clifton or the "Blue." Anyway, she took her four sons and three daughters and established a Homestead on the "Blue." Three of the sons were older than George and became famous outlaws, called the Smith Gang.
When George was a teenager he was involved in one of the gun battles. He was 14 years old and had not been with his brothers he had just met up with them, when they were hiding from posse.
They escaped but two men had been shot. George got shot in the foot.
I don't know when the boys took their mothers maiden name Smith. But when they were outlaws they were known as the Smith brothers.
I haven't seen where George ever used Smith but he was a "Smith" brother. I have in my possession his autobiography called "Both Sides of the Law."
The 1940 Federal census indicates George was a "cowboy" and occupation was "raising cattle."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground_Gunfight
AND https://web.archive.org/web/20120320150639/http://asoac.org/bulletins/94_mcknight_arizona.pdf
The birth certificate for his son Ellsworth in arizona, indicates race of both George Jr. and mother LuVenia Sizemore Hill as "Mexican." This is not correct, they were not Latino.
His father George died, killed in a gun fight. And Mrs. Hill had been a Smith and from Clifton or the "Blue." Anyway, she took her four sons and three daughters and established a Homestead on the "Blue." Three of the sons were older than George and became famous outlaws, called the Smith Gang.
When George was a teenager he was involved in one of the gun battles. He was 14 years old and had not been with his brothers he had just met up with them, when they were hiding from posse.
They escaped but two men had been shot. George got shot in the foot.
I don't know when the boys took their mothers maiden name Smith. But when they were outlaws they were known as the Smith brothers.
I haven't seen where George ever used Smith but he was a "Smith" brother. I have in my possession his autobiography called "Both Sides of the Law."
The 1940 Federal census indicates George was a "cowboy" and occupation was "raising cattle."
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