Sumter High School: Class of 1909

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Sumter High School, Class of 1909

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 Brawner Duffie, Sr., 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 1909 (W&S 2 June 1909, page 4, column 5&6, "High School Commencement", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (20 by W&S) but I list 23: [class photo of males in fall of 1905/7 & HERE; football team 1908,
and girls (1) & (2) of 1909]

"Willie" William Nettles Bradford, Jr., (born 1891), FaG mem. # 131554979
"Wes" W. L. Collins, (born 1889), FaG mem. # (84540580).
Benjamin Fraser Dick, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 129244081
Alfred China DeLorme , (born 1892), FaG mem. # 132065716
John Brawner Duffie, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 132097256
Lawrence Woodward Folsom, Jr, (born 1891) FaG mem. # 132101217
Alva I. Green, (born 1892); son of Moses Green; went to USC & accidentally non-fatally shot by a student friend (7 Jan 1911 Columbia Record p. 10) FaG mem. # 213139581.
"Alex" Alexander T. Haynsworth, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 128481162
James Arthur Haynsworth , (born 1892), FaG mem. # 130597026
"Don" Donald Graham Hinson, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 192201317.
Brandon Jones, (? born 1891 ?), FaG mem. # (not yet found).
Ray Jones, (born 18), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
Walter Herbert Jones, (born 18), FaG mem. # (not found yet)
Edgar Loyns, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 66970785
Herbert Morris, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 79998700.
"Jack" John Alfred Owen, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 128536018
Ernest Harrison Rhame, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 62953528
Julian Schwartz, (born 1893) FaG mem. # 33924495.
"Will" William Judson Shaw, Sr., (born 1891); FaG mem. # 91747303
Julius Sinclair Smith, (born 1892); FaG mem. # 66727729.
Harry Danner Walsh, Jr. , (born 1892); FaG mem. # 136451035
Duane Lattimer Wannamaker, (born 1892), burial site not found yet, FaG mem. # 192285946.
Wade Hampton Williford, Jr., (born 1891) FaG mem. # 126190612

Girls (28 by W&S) but I list 29:

Lucille Baker, (born 1891); FaG mem. # 132168526.
Alice Beck Balaguer, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 108890273.
Lois Warren Ballough, (born 1891), The 1900 census indicates that she was born in 1891 & lived with her uncle (William C. Costin, born 1860) & his sister (Annie Ballough, born 1871) & her uncle's mother (Jane E. Costin, born 1831) and his aunt (Susan Redding, born 1819). In Sumter Cemetery is a Jennie Costin Ballough (died 12 Oct. 1908), FaG mem. # 130526518. Lois not yet found.
Mabel Clair Bowman, (born 1891). FaG mem. # 129837892
Martie Boyle, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 132155307.
Jessie Juanita Bradford, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 132155484.
Carrie Bee Breeden, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 53821655.
"Winnie" & "Etta" Henrietta Winifred Brunson, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 130600262.
Bessie Burbage, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 139194429.
Alice Childs, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 116526111.
Clara Annie Childs, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 33413120.
Ida Chandler, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 132149320.
Marie DuPre, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 120667959.
Mildred Lee Hall, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 91743640
Agnes Stewart Haynsworth, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 128535182.
"Gussie" Margaret Augusta Hood, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 132147180
Eleanor Beverly Hughson, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 112816116.
Eileen McDonald Hurst, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 124266632
Camilla Holmes Kilgore, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 132149146.
"Katie" Katherine Loretta McKiever, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 101850804
"Sadie" Sarah Richardson; may be her = (born 1893), FaG mem. # 87381048.
Leola Kate Rose, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 59783487.
"Bessie" Elizabeth McLaurin Ryan, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 65570978.
Lucille Rose Ryttenberg, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 80044301
"Sudie" Susan Ida Stukes, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 71639790.
"Sophie" Sophia Tisdale, (born 1889), FaG mem. # 192277292.
"Fannie" Frances Cornelia White, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 77559852.
Lucia Rogers Williamson, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 91747252
Sallie Brown Wright, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 77561062,