The Social Security Death Index indicates that a William Smith, with the same birthdate for himself that he gave me in 1959 when I visted him in California, died in California in DEcember 1964.
It is this William who gave me the birthdates of all of his sibling and parents. Unfortunately few of his siblings have been found using their birthdfates as discriptors. William's and his siblings Eugene O. Smith adn Charles E. Smith may have also ben found by this method. See their entries.
At the time of my visit he worked as a custodian, but showed me an enormous library of Western World classics in all areas and seemed to be familiar with their contents.
1895 - 1964 (69 years)