This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YaB.2ACI/1473 Message Board Post: My half brother's father Claude (John) Lawton Smith or T-Bone as I knew him played Semi-Pro Baseball in the 1920's, and a very tall Indian Man gave him the name Mr. T, this is the only info on the baseball part I know. T-Bone owned a grocery store in Valliant Oklahoma which was passed down by his father Frank Claude Smith and T-Bone was born 1900-01 in Heratio Arkansas then about 1911 moved into Oklahoma . If anyone has any information on him please share, My mother Pearl was his 1st wife and they had Neil and Donald in 1936-37. Thank you in advance.