Sumter High School: Class of 1914

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Sumter High School Class of 1914

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 1914 (W & S, 3 June 1914, p. 6, column 1&2, "Fifty Graduates Receive Diplomas", HERE) (brief article with graduate list in Columbia Record of 30 May 1914, p. 7, column 5 & more details The State of 30 May 1914 p. 3):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (25):

John Philip Booth, Jr., (born 1896), FaG mem. # 80175872
Leslie McNair Brower, (born 18), FaG mem. # 110019067
Scriven Spencer Brunson, Sr., (born 1895), FaG mem. # 132013126
William Edward Burkette, (1897), FaG mem # 126165372
Francis Hallett Burns, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 193289775
Julius Russell Chandler, (born 1897), FaG mem. # 132122769
Walter Cheyne, Jr., (born 1868), (doctor), Fag mem. # 130911364
Thomas Childs, Jr., (born 1897), FaG mem # 16519085.
Russell Dick, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 3009366
Samuel Raffles Fraser, Jr., (born 1897), FaG mem # 96566354
William Ansley Hurst, (born 1897), (Mr. John D. Craig established first funeral home in Sumter in 1854 & George H. Hurst acquired it in 1909 & took his 2 sons...W. A. & G. H., Jr...into the business with him. Mr. Craig had Sumter’s first horse drawn ambulance [this history, The State, 14 Sept. 1955, page 8]. There is a pic of the first mororized ambulance in 1922 on the Find a Grave memorial for Stella Miller Hurst...FaG mem # 123534114); his FaG mem. # 126302784
Roland James Lawrence, (born 1893), FaG mem # 94865828
Burwell Deas Manning, (born 1897), FaG mem. #86549508
John Styles Marshall, Sr., (born 1896), Fag mem. # 87468540
Thomas Cuttino McKnight, (born 1896), FaG mem # 108057889
Edwin F. Miller, Jr., (born 1896), FaG mem. # 186667035
Thomas M. Monaghan, (born 1896), Fag mem. # 50960835
Ladson Fraser Owens, (born 1897), FaG mem # 128603854
James Madison Pitts, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 128603854
William Herman Purdy, (born 1896), Fag mem. # 129020755
Gifford Wells Shaw, (born 1898), created & owned Shaw Manutacturing Company,
FaG mem # 129157731.
Julius Alfred Stubbs, (born 1897), FaG mem. #132163949.
Henry W. Walker, Jr., (born 18), Fag mem. # (nothing found yet).
Wilton H. Wallace, (born 18), FaG mem # (nothing found yet).
Ansley Lee Yates, (born 1897), FaG mem. # 93065406.

Girls (25):

Theodora Bennett, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 211280376
Cornelia Leverich Brower, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Rosalie Stewart Brunson, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Thelma Elizabeth Bultman, (born 1896), Fag mem. # 84806542
Adelaide Esther Clarke, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 130665076
Anna Rubie Davis, (born 1896), Fag mem. # 62085025
Marie Isabel DuRant, (born 1897), FaG mem # 67398913
Laura Ann Fraser, (born 1895), FaG mem. # 41525445
Aline Gomez Harby, (born 1897), Fag mem. # 80219152
Anne Elizabeth Herbert, (born 1897), (she became a nurse and missionary),
FaG mem # 62632768.
Agnes Rembert Heriot, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 205016632
Katie Hinson, (born 18), Fag mem. # (nothing found yet).
Azilee Hurst, (born 1896), FaG mem # 124267047
Marie Hurst, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 110910104.
Virginia Dinkins Ives, (born 1896), Fag mem. # 143888312
Pearl Catherine King, FaG mem (nothing found yet).
Harriette McCutchen Owens, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
May Lillian Porter, (born 18), Fag mem. # (nothing found yet).
Aline Reynolds, (born 1897), FaG mem # 130762077.
Effie Pemble Rose, (born 1897; (dau. of John Thomas Rose, FaG mem. # 130394297),
FaG mem. # (nothing more found yet).
Pearl Seale, (born 18), Fag mem. # (nothing found yet).
Iris DuRant Skinner, (born 1895), FaG mem. # 32718178
Mary Antoinette Stuckey, (born 18), Fag mem. # (nothing found yet).
Ruth Vermelle Thompson, (born 18), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Lellaverne Weathers, Fag mem. # 132162429