Smith, Claude Neil
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- Brice Prairie Cemetery near Midway, WI
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- Charles Wm Jr and Claude Neil Smith 1950 San Francisco
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- Claude Neil & Charles Wm Jr Smith
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- Claude Neil & Victor Fred Smith
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- Claude Neil Smith
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- Claude Neil Smith graduation from U of Missouri
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- Claude Neil Smith in middle in Korea
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- Claude Neil Smith second from left
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- Claude Smith & Ruth Snider
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- Death Certificate
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- l to r Claude Neil Smith, Pluto, Big Smitty near Bernburg, Germany Jun, 1945
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- Memorial Folder
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- military marker Brice Prairie Cemetery near Midway, WI
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- Miltary Service
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- Ruth Cleora Snider & Claude Neil Smith
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- Ruth, Victor Fred, & Claude Smith
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- Willie Mae Spiller & Claude Neil Smith
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- Meal Ticket, Pusan
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- Fred R Key & Claude N Smith
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- Claude Smith, Fred S Key, Victor Smith, Gregg Smith, Fred R Key, Pam Key
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- Claude Neil & Victor Fred Smith Yokosuka, Japan
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- Claude N Smith Duty NCO, NCO Club, Yokohama
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- Yokohama back of pic
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- Yokohama PFC Charles Clayton, SGT Claude Smith, CPL Bobby Armstrong, PFC Delbert Chapman
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- Charles W Smith Jr, Charles Walker Smith, & Claude N Smith
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- Claude Smith 1940
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- Claude N Smith in uniform with his horse, Miss LNL
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- Claude N Smith
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- 2nd Grade Silver City, NM Oct 1928
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- Fred R Key, William Carrigan, Willie Mae Spiller, Claude Smith
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- Willie Mae Spiller, Claude Smith, William Smith Jr
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- Charles Smith Jr and Claude Smith
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- Frenchy Theriot & Claude Smith on right
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- Claude and Ruth Smith
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- C N Smith
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- Claude Smith, Willie Mae Spiller, and Charles Smith Jr Mar 1925
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- Newspaper Article
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- Staff Sergeant Smith wearing Jump Wings and 101st Airborne Patch
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- Birth Certificate
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- Marriage Certificate
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- Smith – White Marriage Certificate
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- Smith – White Divorce Correspondence
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- Claude N Smith 1950 Census
My mother (Ruth Cleora Smith) said that my father, Claude N. Smith, did not have a birth certificate until after they were married. During a visit to Sheffield, AL about 1950 a woman came forward who swore that she was present at my father’s birth “down by the river” and a birth certificate was issued on that merit.
At Willie Mae Spiller’s funeral a story was told that Charles William Smith was not Claude Neil Smith’s father, even though those two were married at the time. This story was told by a older man attending the funeral as though it was common knowledge. Supposedly the timing was not correct; that Charles William Smith was working in Washington DC at the probable time of conception and Willie Mae Spiller was living with his family in Memphis. The story went that the probability was the real father was Dink Smith, one of Charles William Smith’s brothers. This was the most plainly stated version of a family story that had been hinted at several times.
The picture of Fred R. Key and Claude N. Smith was taken at the Smith home at 1885 Caposele St, Hazelwood, Missouri shortly before Claude N. Smith died of pancreatic cancer on 4 July, 1986.
Claude Neil Smith was called Smitty.
Claude Neil Smith often lived with his paternal grandparents on a farm that was perhaps near Raleigh (between Memphis and a military base).