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Bessie was born in February 1888 in Mississippi.1   Bessie's father was Ike B. Smith and her mother was Febbie Etta Tutor.  Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Harris Tutor and Julia Ann Sexton. She had five brothers and three sisters, named Cleyland, Jessie, Cordus, Bonner, Ralph Robert, Kate, Vera and Jettie Jewel.  She was the third oldest of the nine children.  She died before 1920 in Lubbock, Texas.1 

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