Sumter High School: Class of 1911

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Sumter High School, Class of 1911

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 1911 (for the ***FIRST TIME*** ...only time?...with class photos [the pictures were shared as being originally published in the prior Sunday...May 28...issue of the News & Courier, Charleston, S. C.], W&S 3 June 1911, page 2, columns 2-5, "Sumter High School", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

***The following are the fifty-three graduates (setting a state of S. C. record & also the first ceremony in maybe 15 years to be heavily rained on) of Sumter High School "graded school" class of 1911: ***

Boys (31): [RIP PHOTOS]...[Class Photo]...[1910 Football season team]

"Reb" John Kemper Bradford, Jr., (born 1893), FaG mem. # 25390514
"Harry" Harrington Cooper Brearley, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 178337325
Deuward G. F. Bultman, (born 189FaG mem. # 84806416
Charlton Levy Burkette, (born 1892), FaG mem. # 110524378
Virgil Payne Corbett, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 126164765
Gaither Pierson Dick, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 92472016
"Ben" John Benjamin Folsom, Sr., (born 1893), FaG mem. # 81010807
Francis Ewing Gibson, (born 1884), FaG mem. # 112798121
Robert F. Haynsworth, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 95719608
John Craig Hurst, Sr., (born 1894), FaG mem. # 128000726
Edward Eugene Jones, (born 1894)...FaG mem. # 31473925
John Dargan Jones; (born 1894), FaG mem. # 77455997
Julius Motte Lawrence, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 116073450
Archie Marcellus LeGrand, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 132142971
Leon LeGrand, (born 1894), FaG mem. #176295652
Harold McFaddin, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 33924419
Walter W. Moore, Jr., (born 1892), FaG mem. # 133766070
"Shep" Shepard Kollock Nash, (born 1893), (pic HERE), FaG mem. # 60441874
Marion Pate, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 99879072
Peter Mellette Pitts, Jr., (born 1893), FaG mem. # 136169217
Allen Raymond Richardson, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 88065660
Irvine Manning Richardson, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 57694360
***John Jacob Riley, (born 1895); he actually early-grade-schooled in Orangeburg, graduated Wofford in class of 1915 & was Congressman from Sumter & for whom Riley Ball Park is named (he started American Legion Post #15 as one of the very earliest tAmerican Legion teams in the USA), Wikipedia, FaG mem. # 8067161.
Earle Rowland, (born 1894), (pic HERE), FaG mem. # 83901014
Alfred Scarborough, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 109589948
Raymon Schwartz, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 80052931
"Molly" Ervin David Shaw, (born 1894), (for whom Shaw AFB is named), HERE),
FaG mem. # 94362664
Wilfed McLaurin Shaw, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 46344510
George Decatur Shore, Jr., (born 1893), FaG mem. # 43959448
Thomas Henry Siddall, Jr., (born 1893), FaG mem. # 132050038
William Brooks Stuckey, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 141206525
Braxton Craven Wallace, Jr., (born 1894), FaG mem. # 129838387

Girls (22): [Class Photo]

"Annie" Anna Jane Barnes, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Ella Pauline Blanding, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 51360322
Adele Kennedy Bowman, (born 18), FaG mem. # 49709331
Anna Louise Brown, (born 1894), (her Winthrop yearbook pick), FaG mem. # 130897735
Agnes Bryan, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Margaret Dundas Cheyne, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 31993872
Rosa Isabelle/Cooper Cheyne, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 130911738
Innis McKewn Cuttino, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 67268406
Susie Dunlop Dick, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 148216268
Sue Duffie, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 132051582
Evelyn Fraser, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 211233798
Gertrude Elizabeth Kohn, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Nancy Witherspoon McKay, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 60441875
"Fanny" Frances James Mellette, (born 1893), FaG mem. #84618702
Mary Louise Mellette, (born 1895), FaG mem. # 84622330
Adele Pitts, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 101853375
Vermelle Plowden, (born 1890), FaG mem. # 9177017
Susie May Raffield, (born 1895), FaG mem. # 122467645
Mary Louise Ramsey, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 1434462
Eugenia Anna Sanders, (born 1894), FaG mem. # 132146135.
Mary Anna Strother, (born 1891), FaG mem. # 7781412.
Elizabeth White, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 94342972.

Lincoln HS Class of 1911:
(it is hard to be sure of gender & student vs. adult & may be ALL grades [no graduate list]...see above W&S, 7 June 1911, p4, col 4&5, "Lincoln School Closes", HERE)

Names of graduates (23):

Boy graduates (7): Edwin Willis Baker, William Francis Bultman,Thomas Jefferson Cain, Robrt Lee Davis, Irvine Hunter Gary, Sylvester Elliott Jefferson, Henry Wilder, Jr.

Girl graduates (16): Arabella Louisa Chichester, Zelia Maxey Counts, Roberta Louise Davis, "Ethel" Ethelyn Sadie DeLorme, Elizabeth Hunter, Mattie Ellen James, Blanche V. Sampson, Susan Viola Sampson, Laura Rachel Shaw, Edith Selena Smith, Elrina Edison Taylor, Rosa Jane Thompson, Bessie Evelyn Wactor, Angeline Blanche Whittaker, Eunice Cornelia Wilson, Amy E. Young.

Others on program (graduates, too?): none.

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

1893 (no graduates, HERE)

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900