County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, p. 371.

RICHARD W. GAINES, M. D., one of the oldest and worthiest physicians of 
the city, as born in Charlotte County, Va., July 5,1815; he is the only 
child of Richard W. and Nancy (Morton) Gaines, both of whom were natives 
of Virginia.  His mother died of pulmonary disease when he was but a few 
weeks old, and his father afterward married Miss Anna White, who bore 
him seven children; the eldest of these was Gen. John W. Gaines, who 
died in Trigg County, Ky., January 13, 1884.  Dr. R. W. Gaines was 
reared on the farm under the beneficient influence of pious parents, and 
was educated in the Randolph Macon College of Mecklenburgh County, Va., 
of which his father was an early patron and founder.  He graduated in 
1833, and in 1834 entered the Transylvania Medical College of Lexington, 
Ky., graduating in 1837.  From the latter date to 1853 he practiced his 
profession in Charlotte Court House, Va., during which time he acquired 
an enviable reputation; he came to Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1853, since 
which time he has had a very successful practice, in which he is still 
actively engaged; he possesses, to a remarkable degree, the sympathetic 
nature and refined sensibilities so neessary to the true physician, 
deriving vastly more enjoyment in being able to relieve the suffering 
than in receiving their remuneration for his services.  He is an ex-
President of the State Medical Society, is a member of the American 
Medical Association, and also of the Christian County Medical 
Association; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the 
Southern Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.  He was first married in 
Virginia to Sarah E., daughter of Col. James P. Marshall.  She was born 
in Charlotte County, Va., and died in 1861, leaving no children.  He 
afterward married Mary C., daughter of Richard I. Gaines of the same 
county.  She died in Hopkinsville in August, 1880.  His present wife, 
Sallie M. Adkerson, to whom he was married June 28, 1883, is a daughter 
of John H. Adkerson, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., where she was born in 1855.

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