Dr. N. J. Paschall - Fulton County, was born May 21, 1840, in Weakley County, 
Tennessee, six miles southeast of Fulton. He is the eleventh of thirteen 
children, seven boys and six girls, two boys and one girl now living, born to 
Jesse M. and Mary (Freeman) Paschall, natives respectively of Caswell and 
Grandville Counties in North Carolina. His grandparents were Alexander and Susan 
(Morgan) Paschall, of French desent. The father of our subject came to Weakley
County in January 1827, and entered about 220 acres of land, which he improved 
and lived on until his death in 1872; he was born in 1799. The father, 
grandfather and great-grandfather and mother of subject all lie in the family
graveyard on the farm entered by grandafther Alex Paschall, and now owned by Dr. 
N. J. Paschall. His father flatboated in an early day down the Mississippi 
River, and was one of the first magistrates of Weakley County. He assisted in 
organizing the first court and was appointed justice for life. At the end of the
four years the constitution was changed; he was then elected for sixteen years. 
He enlisted to assist in removing the Cherokee Indians, also enlisted in the 
Florida War. He was an intimate friend of Davy Crockett. Dr. N. J. Paschall was 
reared on a farm and received a common school education, the best the log-school 
of the pioneer days could afford. He lived with his parents till he was 
seventeen years of age, when he commenced the study of medicine with his 
brother, G. W. Paschall. He took his first course of medical lectures at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1861. After his return 
he enlisted in July 1861, in a cavalry company commanded by Capt.Ballentine. He 
participated in the battles of Paducah, Corinth, Britton's Lane, Fort Pillow, 
bombardment of Vicksburg, Bolivar, Fort Donelson and Belmont. He re-enlisted in 
the spring of 1862 for three years or during the war, and was detailed at 
various times to take charge of the sick. He was under the command of the 
following named generals: Pillow, Forrest and Van Dorn. After the surrender in 
May 1865, he returned home and shortly after emigrated to Kaufman Co., Texas, 
where he remained three years. He returned, renewed his study of medicine and
graduated at Jefferson Medical College in the spring of 1869. He located at 
Fulton, where he has continued his practice ever since with success. He attended 
a course of medical lectures at St. Louis Medical College in 1871. Dr. Paschall 
owns 225 acres of land in a good state of cultivation and a drug store, which he
has acquired by his own industry. He was married July 17, 1864, to Sarah J. 
Wilson of Ballard County, Ky., a daughter of Rutledge and Elizabeth (Holman)
Wilson, natives of Livingston and Butler Counties, Ky. Respectively, of Dutch 
descent. Samuel Wilson located in the Purchase in 1820; William Holman in 1823; 
both settled in Ballard County. To Dr. and Mrs. Paschall eight children were 
born, viz.: Mary B., Sarah A. May F., Demitra A., Newton J., Ed C., Jesse R. and 
Lola A. Mrs. Paschall and eldest daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Dr Pachall has been trustee of Fulton several terms. He is a member of 
the I.O.O.F. in Fulton, also a charter members of the K. of H.

"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 - pg.207