Sumter High School: Class of 1895

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Sumter High School, Class of 1895

Dave Pettigrew, SHS class of 1971, has developed an outstanding website in which yearbooks are being scanned onto his free website (HERE..click on a yearbook image) with many class photos, lists of graduates, and an outstanding graphics and text page of the school's history (HERE).

On this page you are now viewing, the memorial #s are memorials on the free Find a Grave (separate but owned by the subscription genealogy website, Ancestry.com).

I want to directly link to some old, online newspaper sources (Sumter's The Watchman & Southron via Library of Congress' Chronicling America, which detail some history and the senior class graduates.

S. C. petition of Legislature, May 1888, HERE.
Commisioner J. T. Green's 1890 letter about the schools, HERE.
Sumter public school system opens 2 Sept 1889, young John B. Duffie, superintendent.
First year (9 months) ends (students: 310 whites & 294 blacks), HERE (Watchman & Southron issue of 4 June 1890, vol. IX #43, page [image] 3, 2nd column from viewer's left near page top).

Links to classes 1889-1912, HERE . W & S of 1910 has 1891-1910 lists HERE and W & S of 1912 lists 1891-1911 HERE.

***(1889-1913, only 10 grades; 1914-1944, only 11 grades)***

***(Student names: before maybe 1915, names by which people were baptized were frequently & without legal process, changed before, say, age 12. Grade school nicknames often changed as the person became older (HERE). In cases of those with 1 or 2 middle names, either or both of those might be deleted as they became older or married. Old printed source material was printed by a more tedious process than today & typos were not uncommon. Females are especially hard to track down from names on graduate lists; so, the birth year range of a graduation group becomes helpful.)***

Sumter HS Class of 1895 (W&S 5 June 1895, p5, col. 4, "Commencement of The Sumter Graded School", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (1):

"Willie" DuRant Barrett, (born 1876), FaG mem. # 39867128

Girls (6):

"Gussie" Augusta Gwynne Dinkins, (born 1877), FaG mem. # 41607264
Annie Freeland, (born 1877), FaG mem. # 130883549
Laura Mood, (born 1878), FaG mem. # 68247747
"Hattie" Ryttenberg, (born 1877), FaG mem. # 211866175
Rebecca Schwerin, (born 1878), FaG mem. # 51451156.
"Sophie" Warren, (born 1878), daughter of Albert Gallatin Warren [# 130587382] & Catherine Mercer Mack Warren and married Harry Hussa & live in New Jersey; FaG mem. #

Lincoln HS Class of 1895 (W&S 5 June 1895, p5, in 2nd half col. 4, "Lincoln School Commencement", HERE):
(Diplomas were handed out but no names listed.)

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

1893 (no graduates, HERE)

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900

1901