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Dr. G. B. Gillespie, a physician of Covington, was born in Georgia, in 1844, and was one of nine children that lived to be grown—six girls and three boys. His parents were G. B. and Rebecca (Poer) Gillespie. His father was born in Spartanburg County, S. C., in 1800, and moved from there to Georgia in 1833, where he remained until 1870, then moved to Mississippi. He was a teacher and a farmer, and died in 1875. His wife was born in South Carolina, in 1808, and died in 1879. Our subject received a good education at the Salacoa Academy, in Georgia. In 1868 he began reading medicine with Dr. Howard, of Fulton, Miss., and in 1872 he entered the medical department of the Nashville University; after one course of lectures, commenced practicing medicine at Chickasaw County, Miss., where he remained until 1877, then moved to Hickman County, Ky. In 1874-75, Dr. Gillespie, attended another course of lectures at Nashville, and received a diploma from the Nashville and Vanderbilt Universities. October, 1874, he married Miss May, daughter of Paul and Ellen S. Tiller. Mrs. Gillespie was born in Georgia in 1858, they have one son, Paul G. Dr. Gillespie moved from Kentucky to Covington, in 1879, and has carried a very large practice, acquiring the reputation of being a successful physician and surgeon, but more especially in gynecology. Dr. Gillespie and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Democrat and a Mason, and is highly esteemed as a physician and a citizen.