Rev.
A. D. Gaskill, pastor of the church, like most of the citizens of
Weatherford, is a foreigner to the soil of Texas.
This Christian gentleman was born in Montgomery County,
Tennessee, December 3, 1804, of parents who embraced the religion of
Christ, and connected themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church,
three years after his birth. The father, Evan Gaskill, in his
eighty-fifth year, was gathered to the " home of the blest,"
and the mother, now in her ninety-fourth year, awaits the call to
glory. When twelve years of age, Rev. Dr. Gaskill with his parents
moved to Cahaba, now Bibb County, Ala.
In his youthful days he was full of fun, and it is most fortunate that
his juvenile propensities have never been eradicated from his nature.
Dr. Gaskill is the youngest man for his years, in Parker County, and
this is attributed solely to the fact that for half a century he has
been abstemious—free from the intoxicating cup, and from that equal
evil, tobacco. Previous to joining the church, at the age of 14, he
often dreamed of exhorting sinners to repentance and importuning them
to come to Christ, and after his conversion, the duties and
responsibilities of the Methodist church came as natural to him as the
desire of the professional politician is to victimize his
constituency
and country for self. Dr. Gaskill entered the church for earnest
labor, and has ever been one of its most consistent and faithful
workers. [Transcribed
and Submitted by Veneta McKinney]
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