Fulton County Kentucky Genealogy
Fulton County, Kentucky
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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 Co., 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 flat boating 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 Co., 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 was 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 Co., N.C. and a daughter
of Richard and Martha (FREEMAN) BULLOCK of Granville Co., N.C. Mr. BULLOCK
is of Welsh origin. To Mr. 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.
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Submitted by: [email protected] (Bill Utterback)
Saturday, January 29, 2000
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“Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman,
McCracken and Marshall Counties, Kentucky” – A Reprint of Part II of: Battle,
J. H., W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State.
First Edition. Louisville, Chicago. F.A.Battey Publishing Co., 1885
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