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| birth_date=March 12, 1952

| birth_date=March 12, 1952

| birth_place=Gainesboro, Jackson County<br>[[Tennessee]], USA  

| birth_place=Gainesboro, Jackson County<br>[[Tennessee]], USA  

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| death_date=February 1, 2023 (aged 70)

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| death_place=[[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]

| spouse=Vicki Renee Gaw (married 1976-2023, his death)

| spouse=Vicki Renee Gaw (married 1976)

| children=David Gaw<br>

| children=David Gaw

Lewis Ambrose and Sylvia Gerline Hix Gaw

| alma_mater=Lipscomb University<br>

| alma_mater=Lipscomb University<br>

Northwestern State University<br>

[[Northwestern State University]]<br>

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University

| religion=[[Church of Christ]] associate minister

| religion=[[Church of Christ]] associate minister

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'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (born March 12, 1952) is a former [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He is also a Church of Christ associate minister. He retired in May 2020.

 

'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (March 12, 1952 &ndash; February 1, 2023) was a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in the capital city of [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He was also a Church of Christ associate minister. He retired from Lipscomb in May 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nashvillefuneralandcremation.com/obituaries/jerry-gaw|title=Jerry Gaw|publisher=nashvillefuneralandcremation.com|

  

  

==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]]. 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>

Gaw was 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> Gaw's obituary does not disclose his place of interment.

From 1963 to 1969, Gaw resided in Warren in Macomb County, [[Michigan]], a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], because his father was employed in the  [[automobile]] industry. The family returned to Gainesboro in time for him to graduate in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, September 26, 2017.</ref> 

From 1963 to 1969, Gaw resided in Warren in Macomb County, [[Michigan]], a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], because his father was employed in the [[automobile]] industry. The family returned to Gainesboro in time for him to graduate in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, September 26, 2017.</ref> 

 

 

In 1974, Gaw received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in history education from the then David Lipscomb College. He then taught in Church of Christ-related schools in Pensacola, [[Florida]], from 1974 to 1976 and in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], at the since closed Shreve Christian School from 1978 to 1979, when he entered [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, from which under the department chairman [[Donald Rawson]], he procured in 1983 his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> He was a full-time pulpit minister in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, from 1976 to 1978 and thereafter an associate pastor in Shreveport. He served part-time between 1978 and 1980<ref name=statement/> at the since inactive Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizapedia.com/la/cotton-valley-church-of-christ.html|title=Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley, Louisiana|publisher=Bizapedia.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> a [[village]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where his wife's grandparents resided, while he was also completing the master's requirements at Northwestern State University. Gaw thereafter enrolled in the [[Doctor|Ph.D.]] program at Mississippi State University in Starkville. After completion of his doctoral course work from 1982 to 1984, he returned permanently to Lipscomb and received his terminal degree in 1990.<ref name=lipscomb>{{cite web|url=https://www.lipscomb.edu/www/bio/detail/2258|title=Jerry Gaw Professor|publisher=Lipscomb.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2017}}</ref> 

In 1974, Gaw received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in history education from the then David Lipscomb College. He then taught in Church of Christ-related schools in Pensacola, [[Florida]], from 1974 to 1976 and in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], at the since closed Shreve Christian School from 1978 to 1979, when he entered [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, from which under the department chairman [[Donald Rawson]], he procured in 1983 his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> He was a full-time pulpit minister in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, from 1976 to 1978 and thereafter an associate pastor in Shreveport. He served part-time between 1978 and 1980<ref name=statement/> at the since inactive Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizapedia.com/la/cotton-valley-church-of-christ.html|title=Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley, Louisiana|publisher=Bizapedia.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> a [[village]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where his wife's grandparents resided, while he was also completing the master's requirements at Northwestern State University. Gaw thereafter enrolled in the [[Doctor|Ph.D.]] program at Mississippi State University in Starkville. After completion of his doctoral course work from 1982 to 1984, he returned permanently to Lipscomb and received his terminal degree in 1990.<ref name=lipscomb>{{cite web|url=https://www.lipscomb.edu/www/bio/detail/2258|title=Jerry Gaw Professor|publisher=Lipscomb.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2017}}</ref> 

Gaw's wife is Vicki Renee Gaw, a Lipscomb administrative assistant<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Vicki-R-Gaw/Nashville-TN|title=Vicki Gaw|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> originally from Shreveport, whom he married in 1976. They have one son, David Gaw, also of Nashville.

Gaw was married for forty-six years to the former Vicki Renee Clayton, who became a Lipscomb administrative assistant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Vicki-R-Gaw/Nashville-TN|title=Vicki Gaw|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> The couple has one son, David Gaw, also of Nashville.

==Academic career==

==Academic career==