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DR. GIDEON PASCHALL, deceased, was born August 2, 1820, in Caswell County, N. C., and was taken by his parents in an early day to Huntsville, Ala.; thence in 1826, to Weakley County, Tenn., six miles west of Fulton, Ky. He was the eldest of thirteen children born to Jesse M. and Mary (Freeman) Paschall, natives of North Carolina. He was reared on a farm, and was on the ground where Paducah now stands when there was not a building erected thereon. He engaged in flatboating down the Mississippi in an early day, and lived with his parents until he was twenty-two years old, when he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Hawkings; he studied for three years and commenced his practice in Henry County, Tenn.; he finally located where Fulton now stands and put up a log office, which he later moved from a mile east of town to where it now stands—a relic of the past—in the door yard of the family residence in Fulton. He took a course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn., in the winter of 1853-54, received a diploma, and was one of the few who are able to graduate with one course of lectures. He was an excellent physician. He was married August 10, 1854, to Adaline Bullock, of Fulton County, a native of Granville County, N. C., and a daughter of Richard and Martha (Freeman) Bullock of Granville County, N. C. Mr. Bullock is of Welsh origin. To Dr. and Mrs. Paschall were born five children, viz.: Pollie, Mattie, Addie D., Annette, Effie R., now deceased. Mrs. Paschall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; she is owner of one of the finest brick blocks in Fulton, a fine residence, and a number of other residences. Dr. Paschall and a Mr. Carr were the first to sell lots in the town of Fulton; they had the first plat made. The doctor assisted in cutting the State line road through Fulton; his father helped in the removal of the Cherokee Indians. Dr. Paschall was a member of the Masonic fraternity.