Georges' parents moved from Sumter County to Ridgeway shortly after they married (married 1 Aug. 1900). And I'm pretty sure George, the second of four children, was born in Ridgeway.
The Wray family moved to Sumter in 1916, buying the Witherspoon home at 316 West Calhoun St., the back of the lot stretching all the way to Haynesworth St, and not far from the Shaw family house at 312 North Salem. This possibly accounts for the very close friendship of the two cousins, George Williamson Wray (older) & Ervin Bartow Shaw, Sr. (younger)...Ervin & his younger brother, William, liked to come over & watch George milk the Wray family's cow.
George was Sumter High School basketball team captain his junior & senior year, and they lost the state championship by 3-4 points in Columbia. He was football quarterback in 1920 when Sumter barely lost the state championship to Charleston in Sumter during a rain-soaked time, the clock running out just before Sumter was about to score. He graduated with the class of 1921...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=21 (commencement & graduates list in local newspaper, HERE), being the senior class president & being the first ever to be presented the Citizenship Award sponsored and presented by John J. Reily.
He then went to college at N. C. State U. where he graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, class 1925. George retired from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 after 43 years. As his first cousin's (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) son, I knew George and had the greatest respect for his insightful thinking and great love of kinfolk. George was a role model for my daddy (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) who also was at N. C. State a year before transferring to Clemson (where he also finished in EE class of 1933, at the onset of the Great Depression's greatest effect in S. C.).
He and Lois lived in Charlotte, N. C. at 1515 Biltmore Drive.
The Wray family moved to Sumter in 1916, buying the Witherspoon home at 316 West Calhoun St., the back of the lot stretching all the way to Haynesworth St, and not far from the Shaw family house at 312 North Salem. This possibly accounts for the very close friendship of the two cousins, George Williamson Wray (older) & Ervin Bartow Shaw, Sr. (younger)...Ervin & his younger brother, William, liked to come over & watch George milk the Wray family's cow.
George was Sumter High School basketball team captain his junior & senior year, and they lost the state championship by 3-4 points in Columbia. He was football quarterback in 1920 when Sumter barely lost the state championship to Charleston in Sumter during a rain-soaked time, the clock running out just before Sumter was about to score. He graduated with the class of 1921...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=21 (commencement & graduates list in local newspaper, HERE), being the senior class president & being the first ever to be presented the Citizenship Award sponsored and presented by John J. Reily.
He then went to college at N. C. State U. where he graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, class 1925. George retired from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 after 43 years. As his first cousin's (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) son, I knew George and had the greatest respect for his insightful thinking and great love of kinfolk. George was a role model for my daddy (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) who also was at N. C. State a year before transferring to Clemson (where he also finished in EE class of 1933, at the onset of the Great Depression's greatest effect in S. C.).
He and Lois lived in Charlotte, N. C. at 1515 Biltmore Drive.
Georges' parents moved from Sumter County to Ridgeway shortly after they married (married 1 Aug. 1900). And I'm pretty sure George, the second of four children, was born in Ridgeway.
The Wray family moved to Sumter in 1916, buying the Witherspoon home at 316 West Calhoun St., the back of the lot stretching all the way to Haynesworth St, and not far from the Shaw family house at 312 North Salem. This possibly accounts for the very close friendship of the two cousins, George Williamson Wray (older) & Ervin Bartow Shaw, Sr. (younger)...Ervin & his younger brother, William, liked to come over & watch George milk the Wray family's cow.
George was Sumter High School basketball team captain his junior & senior year, and they lost the state championship by 3-4 points in Columbia. He was football quarterback in 1920 when Sumter barely lost the state championship to Charleston in Sumter during a rain-soaked time, the clock running out just before Sumter was about to score. He graduated with the class of 1921...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=21 (commencement & graduates list in local newspaper, HERE), being the senior class president & being the first ever to be presented the Citizenship Award sponsored and presented by John J. Reily.
He then went to college at N. C. State U. where he graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, class 1925. George retired from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 after 43 years. As his first cousin's (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) son, I knew George and had the greatest respect for his insightful thinking and great love of kinfolk. George was a role model for my daddy (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) who also was at N. C. State a year before transferring to Clemson (where he also finished in EE class of 1933, at the onset of the Great Depression's greatest effect in S. C.).
He and Lois lived in Charlotte, N. C. at 1515 Biltmore Drive.
The Wray family moved to Sumter in 1916, buying the Witherspoon home at 316 West Calhoun St., the back of the lot stretching all the way to Haynesworth St, and not far from the Shaw family house at 312 North Salem. This possibly accounts for the very close friendship of the two cousins, George Williamson Wray (older) & Ervin Bartow Shaw, Sr. (younger)...Ervin & his younger brother, William, liked to come over & watch George milk the Wray family's cow.
George was Sumter High School basketball team captain his junior & senior year, and they lost the state championship by 3-4 points in Columbia. He was football quarterback in 1920 when Sumter barely lost the state championship to Charleston in Sumter during a rain-soaked time, the clock running out just before Sumter was about to score. He graduated with the class of 1921...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=21 (commencement & graduates list in local newspaper, HERE), being the senior class president & being the first ever to be presented the Citizenship Award sponsored and presented by John J. Reily.
He then went to college at N. C. State U. where he graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, class 1925. George retired from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 after 43 years. As his first cousin's (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) son, I knew George and had the greatest respect for his insightful thinking and great love of kinfolk. George was a role model for my daddy (Ervin Shaw, Sr.) who also was at N. C. State a year before transferring to Clemson (where he also finished in EE class of 1933, at the onset of the Great Depression's greatest effect in S. C.).
He and Lois lived in Charlotte, N. C. at 1515 Biltmore Drive.
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