RECORDS OF
GENEALOGICAL INTEREST
PERTAINING TO
MUSKOGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
(part of Creek Nation, Indian Territory prior to 1907)
Ancient Free & Accepted Masons
and
Membership for 1897
Alpha Lodge No. 12 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
SUBORDINATE LODGES
MUSKOGEE LODGE NO. 28 MUSKOGEE CREEK NATIONCharter dated November 6, 1888
Time of regular meeting Friday on or before full moon.
OFFICERS
Richard Davant Martin, W.M. James Scott Dodson Jr., W. Edmond E. Burke, Secy. William H. Keys Jr., D. Henry Vogel Jr., S. James Lee Blakemore Sr., W. Samuel B. Severs , Treas. George Bassler, S.D. William Frizzel Seavers Sr., S. Henry H. Edmondson , Tiler
PAST MASTERS
Patrick Joseph Bryne Leo. Edmond Bennett Herbert Johnston Evans Robert William Hill Henry Howell William S. Harsha Napoleon Bonaparte Maxey James A. Scott Zachary Taylor Walrond
PAST ELECTIVE GRAND OFFICERS
Patrick Joseph Byrne, P.G.M. Leo E. Bennett, P.G.M. Robert William Hill, P.D.G.M. James A. Scott, D.G.M.
MASTER MASONS
Lewis Jackson Baker
William Henry Barker
George Bassler
Stephen Becker
Leo. Edmond Bennett
Beverly Berry
Jesse Lee Blakemore
Frank C. Boles
William Sampson Boren
Wm. Edwin Bozeman
Mackey L. Butler
Manny Garret Butler
Edmond E. Burke
Robert E. Butler
Walter A. Cantrell
Patrick Joseph Byrne
Frank S. Darby
William F. Crabtree
James Scott Dodson
John Lafayette Davis
Albert Zabriskia English
Henry Harris Edmondson
Reuben Andrew Evans
Herbert Johnston Evans
Francis Bartow Fite
William A. Fisk
Napoleon Bonaparte Frick
Phillip Mesmer Ford
Robert Willis Hamilton
James Marshal Givens
Daniel E. Harvey
William Samuel Harsha
R. T. Herrod
J. W. Hensley
Henry Howetl
Robert William Hill
Joseph Weston Hubbard
Earnest Henry Hubbard
Robert Buntin Hutchinson
William Tartley Hutchings
William Harry Keys
Francis Gabriel Jarrard
William Edney Linton
James M. Lawson
William A. Maddin
Henry Clay Lowrey
William Newton Martin
Richard Davant Martin
Thomas Francis Meagher
Napoleon Bonaparte Maxey
Charles William Merkel
William J. Measles
Charles William Moore
William Ferdinand Mills
Napoleon Bonaparte Moore
Matthew Reneau Moore
William Owen
J. C. McCullough
George H. Ralsten
Pleasant Porter
George Washington Scott
Andrew M. Robb
William Frizzell Seaver
James A. Scott
Samuel Berryhill Seaver
Frederick Ballard Severs
James Starrow
Samuel Sondheimer
E. M. Switzer
George R. Stites
Clarence William Turner
M. E. Tarvin
Henry Vogel
Sam Upton
Charles H. Warth
Zachary Taylor Walrond
George Henry Williams
Alvin N. Wilcox
Otto Zufall
David W. Yancey
SUBORDINATE LODGES
ALPHA LODGE NO. 12 FORT GIBSON, CHEROKEE NATION Charter dated October 17, 1872Time of regular meeting Friday evenings
on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS
Connell Rogers, W.M. Martin Van Buren Beedle Jr.,W. Florian Haraden Nash, Secy. Manuel Jefferson Holland Jr., D. Jacob Green Jr., S. Frank T. H. Higgins Sr.,W. Henry Clay Meigs, Treas. Thomas Wilson Collins, Sr. D. George Ogilvie Bledsoe, Sr., S. Wiley Washington Bridges, Tiler
PAST MASTERS Florian Haraden Nash Charles M. Doty Frank T. H. Higgins Henry Clay Meigs Thomas Ross
IN MEMORIAM
Benjamin Jones Lack, who died September 7, 1896
MASTER MASONS
Jesse Ray Bagwell Sidney Etlsworth Bell Levi N. Borton Wiley Washington Bridges Charles M. Doty Jacob Green Manuel Jefferson Holland Joseph Lafayette Haskins Hiram V. Linder Florian Haraden Nash Frank B. Reid Thomas Ross George Osceota Sanders Josiah Lewis Sanders Richard Martin Walker Martin Van Buren Beedle George Ogilvie Bledsoe WiUiam Shorey Brewer Thomas Wilson Collins James Monroe Fisher Frank T. H. Higgins Joseph Henry Hornsby John Kirkpatrick Henry Clay Meigs George Washington Parker Frederick William Roe Connell Rogers Gustave Schamblin John Thomas Scott George S. Yarborough
Source: Muskogee County Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 13, No. 3
(September 1996), pages 60- 62. [Transcribed by Mary McLain Downing from the Official Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Communication of the W. M. Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Indian Territory held at Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation, August 10-11 AD 1897]