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Leonora Cooper “Linnie” McLaurin

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Birth	:	29 Sep 1876
Death	:	27 Jan 1949
Burial	:	Wedgefield Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Wedgefield, Sumter County, USA
Coordinate	:	33.8913490, -80.5161750
Inscription	:	"Come unto me and I will give you rest." -- Matthew 11:38
Description	:	She was the highly esteemed principal of Girls High School of Sumter High School on Calhoun Street (the subsequent McLaurin Junior High School...named after her). When Dr. S. H. Edmunds died, she came over to the Boys high school campus at Purdy and Haynesworth streets as the new building opened; girls and boys combined there to form Edmunds High School. [Thanks to Ervin Shaw for this info.] ******************* Sammy Way, the Item, 23 March 2022:** "Miss Linnie" McLaurin was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. H. J. McLaurin of Sumter County. She was a native of Wedgefield... Read More	She was the highly esteemed principal of Girls High School of Sumter High School on Calhoun Street (the subsequent McLaurin Junior High School...named after her). When Dr. S. H. Edmunds died, she came over to the Boys high school campus at Purdy and Haynesworth streets as the new building opened; girls and boys combined there to form Edmunds High School. [Thanks to Ervin Shaw for this info.] ******************* Sammy Way, the Item, 23 March 2022:** "Miss Linnie" McLaurin was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. H. J. McLaurin of Sumter County. She was a native of Wedgefield who later moved to Sumter at an early age and spent her entire life here. "Miss Linnie" had a teaching career which covered 37 years. She was a graduate of the Winthrop Training School in Columbia, and after teaching in Sumter a number of years, McLaurin went to Winthrop College in Rock Hill as a member of its faculty. She returned to Sumter as a teacher and served as principal of the Girls High School. Later she established her own private business school known as the McLaurin Business School, which she set up at her home. The Girls High School was later renamed McLaurin Junior High School in her honor; the Sumter Kiwanis Club initiated this prestigious award. She was survived by her six sisters and one brother.

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Family Members:

Parent

Dr Henry James McLaurin Sr.

(1838 - 1921)

Elizabeth Montgomery “Maggie” McFaddin McLaurin

(1843 - 1917)

Siblings

Mary Muldrow McLaurin Ryan

(1865 - 1950)

Catherine Elizabeth McLaurin

(1869 - 1973)

Helen Mildred “Mary” McLaurin

(1872 - 1955)

Hugh McFaddin McLaurin

(1875 - 1963)

Daniel Benjamin McLaurin

(1878 - 1882)

Annie Culler McLaurin

(1879 - 1901)

Isabel McLaurin

(1881 - 1954)

Ruth Olive McLaurin

(1883 - 1976)

Cornelia Douglas McLaurin

(1886 - 1973)

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Wedgefield, Sumter County, USA
Coordinate: 33.8913490, -80.5161750

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