Sumter High School: Class of 1910

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Sumter High School, Class of 1910

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 1910 (W&S 28 May 1910, page 4, column 5&6, "High School Commencment", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (23):

William Chandler Brogdon, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 71630289
William Hammond Bowman, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 29757019
Robert Tillman Brown, Sr., (born 1890), FaG mem. # 91743252
Edwin B. Boyle, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 121285193
Herbert F. E. Bultman, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 426902905
"Frank" Francis William Chandler, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 132247425
Julius Albert Cooper, Sr., (born 1891), FaG mem. # 64506565
William Eugene Cuttino, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 129596912
Harry Augustus Davis, (born 1890), FaG mem. # 78628979
Marion Spencer Davis, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 78682065
Henry Noble Dick, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 73974797
Richard Spidell Hood, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 173420953
Edward Watson Hook, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 83208564
James William Kinard, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 44920714
William Joseph Lawrence, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 132242426
William Leitch Marshall, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 64661276
Francis Marion Moise, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 51359775
"Fred" Frederick Eugene Nigels, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 55632481
William McKenzie Reynolds, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 112837750
Bean Fleming Scott, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 10038493
Raymond Richardson Stansill, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 48792013
Guy Hendrix Wilson, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 112675903
William Miller Winn, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 132100295

Girls (14):

Helen Lee Beaumont, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 28078943
"Mamie" Mary Elizabeth Bradford, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 65809021
Reida Brown, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 164027799
Laurel Ruth Carr, (born 1893), m. A. A. Team; FaG mem. # 15146078.
Eugenia Anna Cuttino, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 129490489.
Teresa Margaret Chandler, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 104442734.
Annie Belle Harper , (born 18), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
Mamie Kathleen Ives, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 142590891.
Sadie Beulah Jones, (born 18), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
Ella Marie McGee, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 113798956
Mary Baxter Owens, (born 18), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
Marie Beatrice Phillips, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 132145385.
Carita Randle, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 101847049.
Maggie May Seale, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 128536447.

Lincoln HS Class of 1910:
(it is hard to be sure of gender & student vs. adult & may be ALL grades [no graduate list]...see above W&S, 1 June 1910, p5, column 3, "Closing of Lincoln School", HERE)

Graduating students (vs program participants):

Boy graduates: Arthur James Baker; Walter McGhee Gregg; Robert Marion Jefferson; Julis Caesar Johnson; James Emanuel Murray; and Augustus C. Sumter.

Girl graduates: Rosa Ellen Dingle; Ellen Mae Louise Flegler (dau. of Rev. S. F. Flegler); Laura Geneva Holmes; Mary Ethel Huggins; Malvinia Ednora Jacobs; Harriet Lucile Jefferson; Agnes Ella Jones; Jessie Lurena Lowery; Hannah Ethel Henry Mack; Phyllis Angeline Richardson; Beatrice Osborne Stoney; Mary Butler Sumter; Wilhelmina Taylor; Pearl Edith Walton; and Lillian Marie Ethel White.

Others on program (graduates, too?): Flossie Levan; Charles A. Lawson; Johnnie Johnson; Alexander McKnight; and Claudie Withers.

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

1893 (no graduates, HERE)

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900