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==Background==

==Background==

 

 

Gaw is the youngest of five children born to Lewis Ambrose Gaw (1918-1996) and the former Sylvia Gerlene Hix (1918-1995) in Gainesboro in Jackson County located on the Cumberland Plateau near Cookeville in north Tennessee not far from the [[Kentucky]] border. His oldest sibling, Joy Chaffin, is a homemaker in Jackson, Tennessee. A brother, Charles Lewis Gaw, was stillborn in 1945. Two other siblings were Shirley Dianne Gaw O'Shields (1942-2011) of Monterey in Putnam County in north central Tennessee and Gary D. Gaw (1950-1998), who died of a ruptured esophagus in Lewisburg in Marshall County, Tennessee, approximately midway between Nashville and [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. Lewis, Charles, Shirley, and Gary Gaw are interred at the Gaw Family Cemetery No. 1 in Gainesboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Gaw&GSfn=Lewis&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=169990109&df=all&|title=Lewis Ambrose Gaw|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> Sylvia Gaw was cremated.

Gaw is the youngest of five children born to Lewis Ambrose Gaw (1918-1996) and the former Sylvia Gerlene Hix (1918-1995) in Gainesboro in Jackson County located on the Cumberland Plateau near Cookeville in north Tennessee not far from the [[Kentucky]] border. His oldest sibling, Joy Chaffin, is a homemaker in Jackson, Tennessee. A brother, Charles Lewis Gaw, was stillborn in 1945. Two other siblings were Shirley Dianne Gaw O'Shields (1942-2011) of Monterey in Putnam County in north central Tennessee and Gary D. Gaw (1950-1998), who died of a ruptured esophagus in Lewisburg in Marshall County, Tennessee, approximately midway between Nashville and [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. Sylvia Gaw was cremated. Lewis, Charles, Shirley, and Gary Gaw are interred at the Gaw Family Cemetery No. 1 in Gainesboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Gaw&GSfn=Lewis&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=169990109&df=all&|title=Lewis Ambrose Gaw|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref>

During much of his childhood, Jerry Gaw resided in a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], because his father was employed in the  [[automobile]] industry. They returned to Gainesboro, at which he graduated in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane in Gainesboro, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, January 13, 2011.</ref> 

During much of his childhood, Jerry Gaw resided in a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], because his father was employed in the  [[automobile]] industry. They returned to Gainesboro, at which he graduated in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane in Gainesboro, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, January 13, 2011.</ref>