Category: Education

Mr. Patrick H. Lumpkins (Snowden School Class of 1896 – 1897)

Mr. Patrick Lumpkins' Class

Patrick H. Lumpkins was one of the teachers at Snowden Public School for black boys. The school was located on Pitt, between Gibbon and Franklin Streets in Alexandria, VA. During the school year of 1916 – 1917, Mr. Lumpkins became the Principal of Snowden School. He replaced John F. Parker, the former principal due to Mr. Parker’s declining health.

Mr. Lumpkins was born in 1855. He married Ms. Lucy A. Webb. They had two children, Helen and Patrick, Jr. For the school year of 1896 – 1897, he taught 3rd and 4th grades and he had 51 students in his class. The students were:

James Ball – age 9, grade 3rd
Robert Cooly – age 12, grade 3rd
Ferdinand Carter – age 11, grade 3rd
James Edmonds – age 15, grade 3rd
Charles Hardy – age 12, grade 3rd
Arthur Jackson – age 11, grade 3rd
Richard Lane – age 12, grade 3rd
Norman Murray – age 8, grade 3rd
Richard Lane – age 12, grade 3rd
Norman Murray – age 8, grade 3rd
Corneliuss Nelson – age 16, grade 3rd
George Simms – age 12, grade 3rd
Isaac Carter – age 16, grade 3rd
Willie Ball – age 11, grade 4th
Randolph Blue – age 12, grade 4th
James B. Craig – age 12, grade 4th
Frank Howard – age 10, grade 4th
Arthur Milton – age 13, grade 4th
Charles Robinson – age 9, grade 4th
Frank Simms – age 9, grade 4th
Allen Taylor – age 12, grade 4th
Robert Webb – age 11, grade 4th
Ollie Dudley – age 15, grade 3rd
James Dixon – age 9, grade 3rd
Herbert Akers – age 11, grade 4th
James McCorkle – age 13, grade 3rd
Andrew Blackburn – age 15, grade 4th
William Cupid – age 12, grade 4th
Walter Gaskins – age 14, grade 4th
William H. Johnson – age 15, grade 4th
Richard Jackson – age 12, grade 4th
Joseph Jackson – age 15, grade 4th
George Lee – age 11, grade 4th
Henry Lucas – age 12, grade 4th
Richard Lancaster – age 12, grade 4th
Arthur Miller – age 12, grade 4th
Isaiah Palm – age 14, grade 4th
Walter Smith – age 11, grade 4th
Courtland Smith – age 15, grade 4th
Park Tancil – age 11, grade 4th
Henry Webb – age 12, grade 4th
William Waters – age 15, grade 4th
Isaac Williams – age 15, grade 4th
James Harris – age 15, grade 4th
Romeo Essex – age 14, grade 3rd
Robert Wills – age 12, grade 4th
James Smith – age 11, grade 3rd
James Peters – age [?], grade 3rd
Clinton Baltimore – age 11, grade 3rd
Samuel Tucker – age 12, grade 3rd
James W. Burke – age 11, grade 3rd

1940 Parker-Gray High School Teachers and Graduating Class

1940 Parker-Gray Teachers
PG 1939-1940 Teacher List

The Parker-High School year of 1939 to 1940 had one principal and seventeen teachers.

William H. Pitts, Sr. – Principal
A.W. Adkins – Ninth Grade
Susie Anderson – Eighth Grade
Ferris Holland – Tenth Grade
Louis Johnson – Industrial Arts
Edith W. Keys – Ninth Grade
Sarah Michie – Ninth Grade
Dorothy Pierce – Eleventh Grade
Ruby F. Smith – Home Economics
Marie T. Butler – First Grade
Bernice W. Diggs – Second Grade
Laura M. Dorsey – First Grade
Ellen C. Goods – Third Grade
Evelyn Johnson – Fourth Grade
Alma P. Murray – Second Grade
Julia Prichett – Third Grade
Helen L. Robinson – Fourth Grade

Parker-Gray High School had 15 students that graduated in 1940.

Rutherford Adkins
Alma Arrington (King)
Bernice Arrington (Evans)
Mary Baker (Odom)
Alice Bell (Lewis)
Christine Charity (Johnson)
Clarence Cooper
Urguart Dixon
Vivian Edwards (Putman)
Melba Gamble (Bond)
George Lewis
Theola Martin (Chambers)
Ora Roberts
Collia Strong (Rivers)
Samuel Taylor

1939 Parker-Gray High School Students

Senior Students of PG
1939 Parker-Gray High School Graduating Students

Parker-Gray High School had 14 students that graduated in 1939.  There are 15 people in this 1939 picture taken on the front steps of Parker-Gray High School.

Aldrich Adkins

Willie Mae Askew (Griffin)

Daniel Batts

Paul Carter

Louise Euille (Hernandez)

Gladys Howard (Davis)

Marie Johnson

Theola Luckett (Johnson)

John Majors

Lillian Norton (Winslow)

Carlton Tyler

Gladys Wair

William Willis

Eleanor Yeager

 

Principal Henry T. White’s 1920 Parker-Gray Class

First Faculty of PG
1920 Principal Henry T. White and First Faculty

Prior to 1920, the colored boys and girls of Alexandria were taught separately in two buildings.  The boys were in Snowden School, on the west side of South Pitt Street near Gibbon Street.  Mr. John F. Parker was principal of Snowden School.  The girls were in Hallowell School on, the east side of North Alfred Street between Princess and Oronoco Streets.  Mr. Henry T. White was their principal.

Mr. Henry T. White was selected to be the first principal of the combined schools of Snowden and Hallowell for black boys and black girls.  The school was named Parker-Gray School after Mr. John F. Parker and Miss Sarah A. Gray.  Ironically, Mr. John F. Parker’s declining health might have prevented the School Board for selecting him as the principal of the school that was named after him.

Mr. Henry T. White was born in 1862 in Pittsylvania, Virginia.  He was married to Marcella Mayhew.  He and his wife migrated to Alexandria in the late 1880s.  Though he was principal at Parker-Gray, he taught classes.  He taught 7th and 8th grades in 1920 – 1921 school year.  The students were:

Margaret Bell, age 15, grade 8th

Thomas Bell, age 13, grade 7th

Llewellyn Butler, age 14, grade 7th

Corinne Byrd, age 13, grade 8th

Ellen Carter, age 12, grade 7th

Ida Colbert, age 15, grade 7th

Elizabeth Contee, age 12, grade 7th

Rosena Dixon, age 13, grade 7th

William Ellis, age 13, grade 7th

Rosier Gaddis, age 13, grade 7th

Anna Gaines, age 15, grade 7th

Ruth Gilliam, age 12, grade 7th

Eva Hill, age 15, grade 7th

Norris Hopkins, age 12, grade 7th

Gladys Lewis, age 15, grade 8th

Charles Lucas, age 12, grade 7th

Patrick H. Lumpkins Jr., age 13, grade 8th

Lucille Majors, age 15, grade 7th

Wibrow Martin, age 15, grade 8th

Edgar McGee, age 12, grade 7th

Elbert Norton, age 15, grade 8th

Nannie Parker, age 14, grade 7th

James Redd, age 13, grade 7th

Mildred Russell, age 14, grade 7th

Samuel Shanklin, age 15, grade 7th

Esther Speaks, age 12, grade 7th

Florence Stewart, age 15, grade 8th

Richard Strange, age 15, grade 7th

Wallace Strange, age 12, grade 7th

Ernest Turner, age 15, grade 7th

Edmonia Washington, age 15, grade 7th

Kathleen V. White, age 13, grade 7th

Eliza Whitmore, age 15, grade 7th

Marie Jones, age 14, grade 7th