Thomas Smith Jr. and Mary Ruperta Whitting

These are my Grandpa Smith (Thomas V Smith) parents. They had 5 children and my grandpa was the youngest. As I looked through the names of their children ( Burnetta Emily Smith Duncan, Thomas E Smith, Donna Rhuperta Smith, William Rondo Smith, and Thomas V Smith) I noticed that they had 2 Thomas Smith's. Their second child (Thomas E) died in 1923 when he was 15 years old and a year before my grandpa was born.