He was actually born Jake Lackey to N. S. "Jake" Lackey and Callie Jane Smart. Callie Smart Lackey remarried to Houston Galveston Gordon in 1916 and Jake must have taken that name or a variation of it. Possibly adopted as well. I haven't found his real father's memorial yet.
He was actually born Jake Lackey to N. S. "Jake" Lackey and Callie Jane Smart. Callie Smart Lackey remarried to Houston Galveston Gordon in 1916 and Jake must have taken that name or a variation of it. Possibly adopted as well. I haven't found his real father's memorial yet.
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