Sumter High School: Class of 1892

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Sumter High School, Early Years (Class of 1892)

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 & Lincoln HS Class of 1892 (W & S, 8 June 1892, p.3, top column 3, "Graded School Commencement", HERE):
(the name they apparently "went by" in italics)

Boys (6):

John Grenville DeLorme, (born 1874), FaG mem. # 132173064
George Edward Haynsworth, (born 1876), FaG mem. # 128534708
Frank Kennedy Holman, (born 1875), (Citadel grad. & physician), FaG mem. # 117427431
"Lang" Langdon Dinkins Jennings, (born 1871), FaG mem. # 41607296
Hugh McFaddin McLaurin, (born 1875), FaG mem. # 65627489
Herbert Altamont Moses, (born 1876), FaG mem. # 33924456

Girls (4):

Julia Cuttino, (born 1875), FaG mem. # 45256538
"Mamie" Mary Alice Dinkins, (born 1874), FaG mem. # 42153991; Winthrop class of 1894.
Harriett Dubose Kershaw, (born 1878), FaG mem. # 50202427 and (active in WWI 1918 Women's Council of Defense out of Columbia, S. C.; a writer).
Marian Archer Mood, (born 1876), FaG mem. # 48049861.

Lincoln HS Class of 1892 (W&S, 8 June 1892, p3, top col. 4, "Colored Graded School Commencement", HERE:
(principal J. C. Whittaker, his amazing bio & about beatings, HERE & HERE)

Boys (1):

James C. Mayrant, (born), FaG mem. #

Girls (6):

Mary A. Fields, (born), FaG mem. #
Julia A. D. Green, (born), FaG mem. # ; a Juliet D. Green listed with Henrietta B. Green in the 1899 teachers' exam.
Henrietta B. Green, (born), FaG mem. # ; became a teacher (HERE [listed W&S, page 3, column 3, "Privateer Personals" 12/18/1895] & HERE [passed exam, W&S, page 5, 4th column, top half of page, "Results of Regular Teachers' Examination" 9/13/1899])
Ella L. Maxwell, (born), FaG mem. #
S. Edith Middleton, (born), FaG mem. #
M. E. Walker, (born), FaG mem. #

Class of 1893, Sumter institute & graduate of first nursing class, Baker-Dick Infirmary Nursing School

Antonio Bentley Gibson, (born 1875), FaG mem. # 129215697; she became a nurse to the needy of Sumter for 42 years, paid by the city & county & delivering over 1800 babies, too (see the Sumter newspaper, the Item for 6/8/2018).

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