Sumter High School: Class of 1916

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Sumter High School Class of 1916

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 1916 (W & S 7 June 1916, p. 7, column 1&2, "34 Graduates Receive Diplomas", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (16):

Dan Penington Allen, (born 18), (possibly [?] FaG mem. # 113638266).
Raymond Dargan Blanding, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 133046560.
Leslie Lee Boney, (born 1897), FaG mem. # 126067210.
Edward McKay Brogdon, (born 1899), FaG mem. # 131353728.
John Dewitt Brunson, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 62714902.
Thomas Hal Clarke, Jr., (born 1899), FaG mem. # 41158152.
Leroy Shaw Colclough, (born 1897), FaG mem. # 70919164.
Isaac Allen Edwards, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 132150757.
"Buck" Allen Ralph Flowers, Jr., (born 1899), (one of GREATEST football players ever from Sumter), FaG mem. # 134919401.
Hilliard Chreltzberg Folsom, (born 1899), FaG mem. # 132101184.
Robert Marion, Jr., (born 18), FaG. # .
Louis Atwood Pitts, (born1899), FaG mem. # 91584775.
Archibald Broun Richardson, (born 1896), FaG mem. # 77171930.
"Whit" Paul Whitworth Shaw, (born 1899), FaG mem. # 129570552.
Henry McFaddin Spann, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 132147815.
James Carlisle Stuckey, (born 18). (possibly [?] FaG mem. # 16573620).

Girls (18):

Daisy Eloise Allen, (born 1899), FaG mem. # 126067312.
Mary Adda Booth, (born 1899), FaG mem. # 130400483.
Mary Ellen Bowman, (born 1893), FaG mem. # 81691627.
Helena Ard Bultman, (born 1898), FaG mem. # 9192757.
Gladys Cuttino, FaG mem. # 125332474.
Hallie Carson Cuttino, (born 1898), FaG mem. #186130520.
Jennie Lee Harper, FaG mem. # (nothing found yet)
Muriel Hatfield, (born 1898), FaG mem # 132220356.
Ruth Leonora Hussey, (born 189), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Coleen McKagen, (born in 1898), FaG mem. # 93050287)
Margaret Frances McKiever, (born 1899), FaG mem # 101850861.
Mildred Mable Nettles, (born 189), FaG mem. # 93222993.
Hernie Elna Ramsey, (born 189), FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Jane Elizabeth Reames, (born 1899), FaG mem # 131655349.
Ruth Revill, (born 1895), FaG mem. # 99114274.
Olive Myrtle Spann, FaG mem. # 93014783.
Margaret Catherine Waggoman, FaG mem. # (nothing found yet).
Maggie Lou White, (born 1897), FaG mem. # 101603770.

Lincoln HS Class of 1916:
(W&S 24 May 1916, p. 6, column 5, "Lincoln School Closing" [class list], HERE; and W&S 7 June 1916, p. 4, column 1, "Lincoln School Closing" [program details], HERE).

Boys (?):

Girl (?):

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

(no graduates, W&S 7 June 1893, p5, col. #3, HERE)

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899