ATSmith

ATSmith
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This is great granddaddy Allen Taft Smith. He died when my Granddaddy Smith was 14 years old. I showed you his grave marker in an earlier post. My dining room table was his table originally. A doctor performed some kind of operation on him on the old table. He had been injured when he was crossing a bridge. Some hogs were resting under the bridge and when grandpa was on the bridge the hogs were startled and jumped up. That in turn spooked the mule and grandpa subsequently fell and was injured. My dad engraved a metal plaque and fastened it under the table. The plaque tells us that the table was used as an operating table to repair Allen Taft Smith.

My dad has A T Smith's gold pocket watch. I used to take it out and admire it when I was a small boy. I used to make believe that one day it would be mine. I don't think about it so much any more. I expect my dad will give it directly to my son, Daniel. That would please me very much.