through pastures. F. Ernest Day was a teacher and coach at the school. He had been the star pitcher of the community's baseball team in the early 1900s. During the 1929 tornado, school superintendent Thomas Gatlin ordered students to hide under their desks. Although the two-story frame school building was destroyed, none of the students was injured or killed. Civic support Slocum has one volunteer fire department. The VFD holds an annual BBQ and school reunion to raise money to provide for the needs of the fire department. There is also a community-wide reunion held at the school's cafeteria on the Sunday before Mother's Day. Women who live in the community bring homemade cakes and other goodies. References Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Anderson County, Texas Lynching in the United States Mass murder in 1910