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Lieut John Lee “Junior” Smith Jr.
- Birth
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- 2 Dec 1959 (aged 38)
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Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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- Garden B Lot 45 Space 3
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- 54256778 · View Source
- Maintained by: AvB
- Originally Created by: GenFreaks
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54256778/john_lee-smith: accessed ), memorial page for Lieut John Lee “Junior” Smith Jr. (9 Feb 1921–2 Dec 1959), Find a Grave Memorial ID 54256778, citing Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA; Maintained by AvB (contributor 47833897).
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A photograph of my uncle 1st Lieutenant John Lee Smith 'Junior' comforting another soldier taken in the Haktong-ni area of South Korea by career combat news photographer Al Chung on August 28th 1950. In WW2 he was in the battle of Saipan and Tinian and was awarded the Bronze Star for his meritorious action in the bloody Okinawa campaign of April 1945.
— at Korea.
— at Korea.
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The Smith family from left to right: John Lee jr., Ruby Coleen, John Lee Sr., Ruth, Mark Spencer, 1940.
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Smith family with relatives at Christmas time around 1940
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John Lee Smith Jr in uniform for World War II.
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John Lee Smith jr. is crouching low so that the sign: INDIANS are not permitted on these premises is very visible. John Lee Smith jr.s grandmother was an Oneida Nation Indian. They were training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1942.
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John Lee Smith jr casual army attire
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from left to right John Lee Smith jr no 1 Motor assembly group
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1st Lieutenant John Lee Smith jr. in WW2 uniform
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John Lee Smith Sr. in his WW1 uniform with his son John Lee Smith Jr. in his WW2 uniform.
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John Lee Smith jr in civilian clothes...
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John Lee Smith jr. with little brother Mark Spencer Smith.
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May 1925
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John Lee Smith jr. as a toddler in a WW| uniform as a toddler.
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John Lee Smith jr. in the arms of Henry Hunter Smith, his grandfather.
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House in Throckmoron, TX where John Lee Smith jr. was born to Ruth Velma Elrod Smith & John Lee Smith sr.
On the top right photograph Margaret Ann Lee Smith holding her other grandsons Henry Reynolds Smith. The lower photographs of Laurene Elrod a sister of Ruth Velma Elrod.
On the top right photograph Margaret Ann Lee Smith holding her other grandsons Henry Reynolds Smith. The lower photographs of Laurene Elrod a sister of Ruth Velma Elrod.
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Isaac Newton Elrod and Myrtie Colene McGaughey Elrod (grandparents) with John Lee Smith jr. pictured below in August 1921. Babies : Henry Reynolds Smith and John Lee Smith jr. pictured below.
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16th US 1940 Census Throckmorton TX
John Lee Smith Head 45
Ruth V Wife 41
John Lee jr Son 19
Mark S Son 11
Ruby C Daughter 7
John Lee Smith Head 45
Ruth V Wife 41
John Lee jr Son 19
Mark S Son 11
Ruby C Daughter 7
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15th US 1930 Census Alvord Wise county TX
Isaac Newton Elrod Head W M 56
Myrtie McGaughy Elrod Wife W F 53
Verdell B Elrod Daughter W F 21
Alemeda E McGaughey Mother in Law W F 76
Ruth Smith Daughter W F 31
John Lee Smith Grandson W M 9Mark Spencer
Isaac Newton Elrod Head W M 56
Myrtie McGaughy Elrod Wife W F 53
Verdell B Elrod Daughter W F 21
Alemeda E McGaughey Mother in Law W F 76
Ruth Smith Daughter W F 31
John Lee Smith Grandson W M 9Mark Spencer
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This is John Lee Smith Junior's death certificate. This man had survived World War II and the Korean war only to be killed by his stepmother, (she said that she had mistakenly poured hot coffee in his breathing tube rather than his drinking tube). This is what my father told me. He also said that she did this so that she would inherit the vast silver collection that John Lee's father had used when inviting dignitaries to dinner during his tenure as Lieut. Gov. of Texas during World War II. He was 39 years old when he died.
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