The Last Yoeman: Traion Smith's Life and Legacy

Michelle Greer loves being a grandmother. Every time little Alaia visits, they make a beeline for the park together. She’s 3 years old now, but everyone in the central Texas town of Cameron describes her as the spitting image of her father, Traion Smith. Michelle says Alaia is a girly girl, though sometimes in the park when she sees that face light up or those inherited thick calves pumping, she’s transported back to when she did this same thing with dad.

“She brings life to me,” Michelle said. “That’s the best thing that God could have given me, despite everything that happened to him.”