Sumter High School: Class of 1904

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Sumter High School, Class of 1904

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 1904 (W&S 1 June 1904 , page 2, column 4, "The Graded School Commencement", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (3):

Louis Cain Bryan, (born 1885), FaG mem. # 132246870
James DuPre Graham, Jr., (born 1887); FaG mem. # 121462221
Eugene Murr Hall, (born 1886); FaG mem. # 38871312

Girls (9):

Winifred Atkinson, (born 1886), FaG mem. # 130531146.
"Hennie" Henrietta Mae Bradford, (born 1884), FaG mem. # 61890715.
Mary Ann Burgess, (born 1886), FaG mem. # 29803649.
"Lizzie" Elizabeth Crosswell Dinkins, (born 1888), FaG mem. # 124892926.
"Hallie" Harriet Ruff Jones, (born 1887), FaG mem. # 132153468.
Vivian Meredith Manning, (born 1887), FaG mem. # 132831486.
Allie Lucille Randle, (born 1888), FaG mem. # 135839042.
Arrie Camilla Stuckey, (born 1887), FaG mem. # 30658237.
Leonora Glenn Williford, (born 1887), FaG mem. # 38871317.

Lincoln HS Class of 1904:
(W&S, 1 June 1904, p2, column 5,"Lincoln School Commencement", HERE)

Graduates: boys = Thomas W. Bowen, Andrew Dibble Maxwell, James W. Shaw, Julius C. Kendrick, and Willie J. Montangue (? Montague); girls = Mary Lucille Anderson, Jannie E. Davis, Leonora Edwards, Minnie E. Harmon, Essie E. Sampson, Louisa V. Bradley, Lillian Verona Dyson, Corneila S. Hamilton (? Cornelia), and Carrie V. Singleton.

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

1893 (no graduates, HERE)

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900

1901