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The O'Donnell House in Sumter, South Carolina, also known as Haynsworth-Bogin-O'Donnell House or as Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home, was built in 1840. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The cities of Sumter, Bamberg, and Myrtle Beach (all South Carolina), each presented its "key to the city" to Pinkney. In 2001, the South Carolina Department of Education honored Pinkney in its African-American History Month calendar alongside Merl Code, Tom Feelings, Mamie Johnson, Sanco Rembert, and other notable black South Carolinians. [3]
Harriette Kershaw was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, and raised in Camden and Sumter, South Carolina, the daughter of Rev. John Kershaw and Susan B. de Saussure Kershaw of the De Saussure family. [8] Her paternal grandfather, Joseph B. Kershaw, was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and later a politician.
James Paul Freund (September 16, 1946 – August 9, 1976) and Pamela Mae Buckley (December 16, 1951 – August 9, 1976), commonly known as the Sumter County Does, Jock Doe and Jane Doe respectively, [6] were two previously unidentified American murder victims found in Sumter County, South Carolina, on August 9, 1976. [7]
Clarkson was born in Camden, South Carolina, the son of James S. H. Clarkson, Jr. of Sumter, South Carolina and Frances Dargan Clarkson of Camden, South Carolina.He graduated Sumter High School (then known as Edmunds High School) in the class of 1965 [1] and then graduated in 1969 from Clemson University with a bachelor of arts degree in economics.
A.P. Williams Funeral Home is a historic African-American funeral home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1911 as a single-family residence, and is a two-story frame building with a hipped roof with gables and a columned porch. At that time, it was one of six funeral homes that served black customers.
The Item, formerly known as The Sumter Daily Item and The Daily Item, is an independent morning newspaper published in Sumter, South Carolina, five days a week (Tuesday to Friday), with a "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday mornings, by Osteen Publishing Company. It has a circulation of approximately 20,000.
Thomas McElveen, South Carolina State Senator (2012–2024) Lou-Ann Preble, congresswoman from Tucson, Arizona (1993–2002). Ramon Schwartz Jr., member of South Carolina Legislature and some years as Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Martha Priscilla Shaw, mayor of Sumter (1952–1956), first female mayor in South Carolina.