angelike755

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. He was 39 years old when he died. ...more