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John Smith Gavitt (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, sheriff and soldier)

b. 1826? d. 1861-10-21

Vanderburgh County, Indiana, sheriff and soldier. Son of John Gavitt and Alice Smith. Father of John Smith Gavitt, William Gavitt, and Joseph Gavitt. Sheriff of Vanderburgh County from 1853 to 1857 and 1859 to 1861. Major in 1st Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment from August 1861 to October 1861. Lieutenant Colonel in 1st Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on October 1861. Killed in battle at Fredericktown, Missouri, on October 21, 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vanderburgh County, Evansville, p. 74. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 2, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis, Ind: W.R. Holloway, State Printer, 1865), 270. Joseph P. Elliott, A History of Evansville and Vanderburgh County (Evansville, Ind: Keller Printing Company, 1897), 380. William E. Henry, Legislative and State Manual of Indiana for 1899-1900 (Indianapolis: WM. B. Burfort, 1899), 812. “Past Sheriffs of Vanderburgh County,” Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/past-sheriffs.aspx. Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Veterans of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, compiled 1861 - 1934, NARA RG 15, Roll WC37546 (accessed via Fold3.com).

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Gavitt, John Smith. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208268 (November 12, 2026).

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