FULTON COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
December 2002
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio.  Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed.  Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

SMELLIE, Gavin, Jr., Dover, Tedrow p.o., was born in Cuyahoga county, O., in 
1833, and was a son of GAVIN and AMANDA (NORRIS) SMELLIE.  AMANDA was born in New Jersey, and GAVIN was born near Glasgow, in Scotland, in 1801. They were 
married at Cleveland, O., and had a family of ten children, four of whom are now living: JOHN, GAVIN, SUSAN and W. R. (the publisher of the _________ [sic] at 
Cleveland). Five of the sons, JOHN, GAVIN, Jr., CHARLES, EMERSON and WILLIAM 
enlisted. Two were killed while in the service, EMERSON and CHARLES. GAVIN, JR.
 enlisted in Co. K, 30th Illinois, September, 1861, under Colonel Fouk, served 
three years, and was discharged at Springfield, Ill., in 1864. 

He was married in 1857 to JULIA A. WHITTCAR, of Madison county, O. They have had
 five children: ALICE A., CHARLES H., HARRY B., EMMA J., and HERMAN G. They 
settled in Fulton county, on their present homestead farm of 74 acres in 1869. 
Mr. Smellie was trustee for two years, and is at present treasurer of the 
township.