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Salado Lodge #296 A.F. & A.M.

Chartered June 13, 1867 • 95 S. Church St., PO Box 23, Salado, Texas 76571

History

Has Masonry a Mission?

December 27, 2018 by Timothy Fleischer

ADDRESS OF WALTER L. STOCKWELL

Grand Secretary Grand Lodge of North Dakota

And now for a few moments it is our desire to direct your thoughts to the consideration of some questions which seem to deserve more careful attention than is sometimes given by most of us.

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Filed Under: American Freemasonry

Salado Masonic Lodge #296 Open House June 9

June 6, 2018 by Timothy Fleischer

Salado Masonic Lodge #296 invites the public to see the building in which it has met for more than 140 years.  The Lodge will hold an open house 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. June 9. It is located at 95 S. Church St. in Salado.

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Filed Under: News, Salado Freemasonry

Salado Masons will honor Teachers of the Year

April 26, 2018 by Timothy Fleischer

Lamar Medal presentations during April 28 luncheon

Salado Masonic Lodge will honor Teachers of the Year from each of the four school campuses with the Mirabeau B. Lamar Medal during a luncheon at the Salado Civic Center at noon on April 28.

The Lamar Medals will honor the Salado ISD Teachers of the Year from Thomas Arnold Elementary (Meredith Bonnett), Salado Intermediate School (Colleen Gilchrest and Laura Tomlin), Salado Junior High (Ruth Watkins) and Salado High School (Kenny Mann) with the Lamar Medal and a $250 check.

There is no charge for the luncheon, but public attendees are asked to join the Lodge members in bringing side dishes, salad or dessert for this community celebration of education. Lodge members are cooking Italian food for the lunch. For more information, call Secretary Tim Fleischer, 254-458-2643 or email secretary@saladolodge296.com.

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Filed Under: News, Texas Freemasonry

4th of July and Freemasonry

June 30, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

The 4th of July is a very important date for Freemasons and is celebrated by members of the craft all over the world.

Freemasons and the fourth of July are interconnected by the events that took place on that date, which would not have been possible or would have taken place very differently if it weren’t for Freemasons. [Read more…] about 4th of July and Freemasonry

Filed Under: American Freemasonry

Masonic Affiliation of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

June 30, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

Of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, the following were known to be members of a Masonic lodge:

      Benjamin Franklin – 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S. member of St. John’s Lodge, Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Past Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania.


Elbridge Gerry, member of Philanthropic Lodge, Marblehead, Massachusetts.


John Hancock, made a Master Mason, at the age of 23, in 1760, in Merchants Lodge No. 1, Quebec City, the first civilian Lodge established in Canada after the Conquest. In 1763, he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he affiliated with St. Andrew’s Lodge.


William Hooper, member of Hanover Lodge, Masonborough, North Carolina.


Richard Stockton, charter member, and first Master of St. John’s Lodge, Princeton, New Jersey.


Matthew Thornton, made a Mason in a Lodge attached to a British Regiment of Foot during the Siege of Louisburg, Canada, in 1745, serving in a New Hampshire Colonial Regiment as a surgeon. Baron Von Steuben, while at Valley Forge, is said to have conferred the higher Degrees on him and to have been the only Signer who attained the 32nd Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.


George Walton, member of Solomons Lodge No. 1, Savannah, Georgia.


William Whipple, member of St. Johnþs Lodge No. 1, Portsmouth, New Jersey.


The following named Signers have been referred to as members of the Fraternity by various Masonic writers, and in Masonic publications, but their Lodge affiliation is not known:


Roger Sherman, claimed to have been made a Mason prior to the American Revolution. A Masonic Apron said to be worn by him is in the collection at Yale University.


Josiah Bartlett, one so named is listed as a charter member of King Solomon’s Lodge, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Descendants, however, say he was not a member of the Craft. There is doubt that this Bartlett is the signer, and records of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts do not show his Lodge affiliation.


Philip Livingston, often referred to as a Mason, but this is open to debate. Records of the Grand Lodge of New York do not disclose his name. Several members, named Livingston, are noted in the records of Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City, New York.


Joseph Hewes. Records of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, Edenton, North Carolina, show his name as a visitor on St. John’s Day, December, 1776.


Robert Treat Paine, member of a Massachusetts Lodge. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts records do not show his affiliation He was said to be present at the celebration of St. John’s Day, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in June, 1759.


Thomas McKean, noted as a frequent visitor to Perseverance Lodge No. 2l, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The McKean genealogy has stated he was a Mason, although his name is not found on the records of the Grand Lodge of Delaware, which was not organized until the close of the American Revolution. A brother, Samuel McKean, was a member of the Fraternity.


John Penn, known to have attended Lodges in North Carolina, but his Masonic affiliation is not known.


Lyman Hall, claimed to have been a member of Solomons Lodge No. 1, Savannah, Georgia.


William Ellery, claimed as a member of a Lodge in Boston, Massachusetts.


Thomas Nelson, Jr., claimed to have visited Lodge No. 9, Yorktown, Virginia, after the Siege of that place was lifted in the Revolutionary War, accompanied by Lafayette and Washington.


Absence of definite proof of the Masonic affiliation of the Signers named in the foregoing paragraphs, precludes the possibility of knowing.

This is also the case with Thomas Jefferson; John Adams; Benjamin Rush, Robert Morris; John Witherspoon; George Wythe; Francis Lightfoot Lee; Richard Henry Lee, and others. Caesar Rodney, of Delaware fame, had a son Caesar Augustus Rodney – a member of the Craft. George Read, another Signer from Delaware, had a son – George M. Read – who was Grand Master of Pennsylvania. Samuel Huntington had a son who was Grand Master of Ohio.

Source: https://www.mn-masons.org

Filed Under: American Freemasonry

Declaration of Independence July 4 1776

June 30, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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Filed Under: American Freemasonry

Salado Masonic Lodge 150th Anniversary

June 30, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

Salado Masonic Lodge celebrated its 150th anniversary with a dinner at The Stagecoach Inn on June 12, 2017. The Lodge received its charter from the Grand Lodge of Texas on June 13, 1867.

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Filed Under: News, Salado Freemasonry

George Washington the Freemason

June 30, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

George Washington as an Active Mason

By Bro. CHARLES H. CALLAHAN,

Grand Master, Virginia

 

Since the work on the great Washington National Memorial at Alexandria, Va., has been begun the question has frequently been raised, Was George Washington an active Mason, or was he merely, like a few other illustrious men, contented to have his name on the roll?  

This question has been answered once and for all, one may believe, by the one man who knows most about the subject, Bro. Charles H. Callahan, author of “Washington, the Man and the Mason,” in an address delivered before the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, held at Charleston, S.C., March 14, 1923.  A part of that address is given below. [Read more…] about George Washington the Freemason

Filed Under: American Freemasonry

Captain Robert Bonner Halley

June 1, 2017 by Timothy Fleischer

Captain Robert Bonner Halley

Written by MaryBelle Brown

Robert B. Halley was one of the petitioners for Salado Masonic Lodge #296. His beautiful home sits on North Main St. Salado.

Robert Bonner Halley was born in Macon, Georgia on May 13, 1824. His wife, Lydia Anderson Ederington, was born in Memphis, Tennessee on January 12, 1831. The couple was married in Bradley County, Arkansas on August 1, 1850.

The Halleys came to Texas in 1852, first living in San Antonio, but because of threats from Indians, he moved his family to the Salado area in 1853. He is listed in the 1860 Census as living in Belton. [Read more…] about Captain Robert Bonner Halley

Filed Under: Salado Freemasonry

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