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  Sumter High School, Early Years (Class of 1922)

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 1922 (W & S, 10 June 1922, p. 4, column 3 "High School Commencement"
[75 graduates], HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (33):

  • Carson Blackwell, (born 1902), Fag mem. # 130696335.
  • Carl Blanton, (born ), FaG mem # (not found yet).
  • Roy James Britton, (born 1904), Fag mem. # 94352036.
  • "Jack" James Thomas Brogdon, Jr., (born 1904), FaG mem # 43960649.
  • William Brody, (born 1904), FaG mem # 80066183.
  • Ansley D. Brunson, (born 1902), Fag mem. # 37249999.
  • Francis A. Brunson, (born 1905), FaG mem # 181361957.
  • Charles Edwin Crombe, Jr., (born 1904), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • Marion Percival Curtis, (born 1904), FaG mem # 132112813.
  • Leo W. Dixon, (born ), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • James A. Davis, (born ), FaG mem # (not found yet).
  • James Chandler Felder, (born 1904), Fag mem. # 130155519.
  • George Marion Foxworth, Jr., (born 1905), FaG mem # 66469664.
  • J. M. Fraser, Jr., (born ), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • Dudley Reames Hodge, (born 1902), FaG mem # 112754568.
  • Joel Geiger Hodge, (born 1904), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • "Happy" Daniel Rease Joye, (born 1902), FaG mem # 177184532.
  • Elbridge Kennedy, (born ), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • Francis Kirk, (born ), FaG mem # (not found yet).
  • William Coit Kirven, (born 1903), Sumter Chief of Police, Fag mem. # 130085845.
  • Henry Wampole Ligon, (born 1905), FaG mem # 117569657.
  • Louis Lyon.Jr., (born 1905), Fag mem. # 80222092.
  • Eddie McCaskill, (born 1904), FaG mem # (not found yet).
  • George Alexander Nofal, (born 1904), Fag mem. # 104799820.
  • Baynard Yeadon Pitts, (born 1905), FaG mem # 128086776.
  • Sandy Owens, (born ), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • Harry Lee Shaw, Jr., (born 1905), FaG mem. # 183007027.
  • Myers Skinner, (born 1904), Fag mem. # 146852069.
  • "Jack" Herbert Alva Spann, (born 1905), FaG mem # 111268050.
  • George W. Vaughn, (born ), Fag mem. # (not found yet).
  • Sam Wells, (born ), FaG mem # (not found yet).
  • Clinton B. Wheeler, (born 1903), Fag mem. # 48423547.
  • Carleton N. Whilden, (born 1905), FaG mem # 57334414.

Girls (39):

  • Mary Elizabeth Alderman, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 127289130.
  • Helen Allen, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 40219717.
  • Nell Trueman Ard, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 32250277.
  • Elizabeth M. Baker, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 44782315.
  • Edna Davis Boney, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 132011702.
  • Nancy Booth, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 124671665.
  • Anabell Britton, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Liz Brogdon, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Lillian Camilla Burkett, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 132151306.
  • Lucy Burns, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Kate Bradham Campbell, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 119851467.
  • Nancy Inez Carr, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 132064220.
  • Daisy China, (born 1903), FaG mem. # 126825660.
  • Mary Helen Commander, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 131650726.
  • Ida Tindal Cuttino, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 129812154.
  • Helen Howard Cuttino, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 129491855.
  • Rosa Estelle Edwins, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 32166275.
  • Margaret Edmunds, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 82491697.
  • Rita Rivers Heriot, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Lillian Almena Hill, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Linner Noreen Hinson, (born 1901), FaG mem. # 115726736.
  • Julia Dorothy Hook, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Julia Florence Hurst, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 123801303.
  • Cecile Alston Lide, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 131655481.
  • Katherine Lester McKagen, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Mamie Belle McCollum, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 46757803.
  • Lois Catherine McKnight, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 69982514.
  • Annie Rosalie Neyle, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • "Emmie" May Willis Osteen, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 62715025.
  • Marguerite F. Roper, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Lydia Rose Ryttenberg, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 80042830.
  • Lois Vernon Shirer, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 111110855.
  • Ellen Virginia Stuckey, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Catherine McIver Timmerman, (born 1904), FaG mem. # 42390419.
  • Mamie Isabelle Tucker, (born 1905), FaG mem. # 84303919.
  • Toxie Turner, (born 1903), FaG mem. # 149056099.
  • Mildred W. Wactor, (born 1903), FaG mem. # 130237531.
  • Sara Brearley Weldon, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).
  • Clara Haynsworth Wells, (born 19), FaG mem. # (not found yet).

Lincoln HS Class of 1922:
(none yet found)

Boys (?):

Girl (?):

Years 1892-1912, LINKS:

1891

1892

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

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

1920 through at least 1972
(then click on any yearbook image)

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(posted 30 January 2018; latest update June 2020)

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