Flynns Lick (inhabited place)

Scope and Contents Dero Armistead Darwin, a descendent of pioneer settlers in Jackson County, was born to George Cowan Darwin, III and Mattie Alice Chilcut Darwin of Jackson County, Tennessee on October 22, 1900, one of eleven children. He attended New Bethel School there, and later, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (TPI), graduating in 1922. He married fellow TPI student Clemma Masters from Cookeville in 1923, settling near Gainesboro, and they had one son, Dero Darwin, Jr. in 1929. Dero Sr. became a...