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Note: MUNITY WITH HIM. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT UNION SCHOOL LOCATED ON UNION RD., OFF BUTNER RD., IN SOUTH FULTON COUNTY. UNCLE TOM AND AUNT LOU LIVED ON DERRICK RD.-OFF JONES RD-WHICH IS OFF STONEWALL TELL RD. SOUTH FULTON COUNTY. IT WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED "RED MILL RD. UNTIL THE "R-E-A-"CAME THRU IN THE EARLY 40'S AND THEN IT WAS JUST RENAMED DERRICK RD. AT THAT TIME THEY WERE THE ONLY FAMILY THAT LIVED ON THAT RD. UNCLE TOM LIVED ON 64 ACRES AND RAISED CORN-VEGE.-CHICKENS AND COWS-SOLD EGGS-MILK-BUTTER-AND HIS CORN AND OTHER THINGS THAT HE GREW. HE WAS A FARMER. TOM WAS MY UNCLE. I REMEMBER HIM WITH A MUSTACHE, AND BALDING. UNCLE TOM NEVER DROVE A CAR, HOWEVER, HE OWNED A CAR FOR HIS CHILDREN TO LEARN TO DRIVE. THIS WAS INTERESTING THAT ALTHOUGH HE OWNED A CAR HE NEVER KNEW HOW TO DRIVE. UNCLE TOM ATTENDED UNION SCHOOL LOCATED ON BUTNER RD. JUST WEST OF UNION RD. UNCLE TOM ATTENDED UNION CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND WHEN I WAS YOUNG HE WAS AN ELDER IN THE CHURCH AND AS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAD COMMUNION HE ALWAYS PRESIDED OVER THE COMMUNION. AFTER THE PREACHER HAD FINISHED HIS SERMON UNCLE TOM ALWAYS HAD ANOTHER GOOD TALK FOR US. UNCLE TOM HAD PALSEY, OR PARKINSON'S DISEASE. SHIRLEY DERRICK HOLLAND G-GRAND DAUGHTER WILLIAM D DERICK GRAND DAUGHTER-JOHN CASWELL DERRICK, BROTHER DAUGHTER-FOREST RAY DERRICK
Note: TOM GREW UP ON WHAT IS NOW PITTMAN RD. HE MARRIED LOU SCARBROUGH WHICH LIVED IN THE SAME COM
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