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Ozro Jackson Smith

submitted by Pat R. Stiles Taritas

There are many Montcalm soldiers in the MI 2nd and 10th Cavalry. Ozro Jackson Smith of Lakeview/Cato Twp. served in both companies. He is said to have been the first enlistee from Cato in Mr. Lincoln's War, enlisting at Camp Lee in Grand Rapids. I have a WIP tentatively named "Smith-Webster & Allied Families 1630-1936, Founding Families of the CT River Valley." This work consists of the American Ancestry of O.J. Smith of Cato/Knotmaul Corner and a good deal of his ancestry in England. Of his 50 identified emigrant ancestors all but one was from England and that was Stoffel [of Christopher] Vansant of Holland. This work contains several pages on the settlers of Cato Twp., the family of O.J. Smith. The Bentley Library, U. of M. has extensive material on Montcalm Co. Civil War activity as does the Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library. I have O.J.'s civil war diary.

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