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DEATHS OF MEMBERS FROM ANNUAL RETURNS
OF CONSTANTINE LODGE, NUMBER 64,
FREE AND ACCEPTED FREEMASONS,
LEXINGTON, TENNESSEE, 1848-l935

Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith

This Masonic lodge is one of the oldest in the state of Tennessee having received its charter October 11, 1828. Its oldest annual return . . . is extant as is the 1848 return and some of those of the 1850s.When vital statistics were not kept officially by a governmental agency, the records of deaths in such private organizational returns are especially important. Charles A. Snodgrass in his THE HISTORY AND GROWTH OF FREEMASONRY IN TENNESSEE, 1789-1943 (1944), page 295, lists other Masonic lodges in Henderson County, the active as well as the "failed" ones. The Grand Lodge in Nashville, Tennessee has records of these local lodges and it was there that the present writer abstracted the death mentions in the annual returns for the Constantine Lodge.

1830 no deaths reported

1848 R. J. VANHOOK died March 8, 1848

1853 DAVID KIZER and JACOB CARTER, no death dates given

1856 DUKE WILLIAMS died March 24, 1856

1857 BALAAM NEWSOM died April 1857

1858 CHRISTOPHER H. WILLIAMS died November 22, 1857; JOSEPH YOUNG died May 23, 1857; LEVI S. READ died June 7, 1857; ELIJAH AUTREY died Oct. 25, 1856

1859 none reported

1861 none reported

J. A. Teague, Secretary of the lodge wrote to the Grand Lodge, Oct.17,1873, "our records were burned during the war" [Civil War]

1866 none reported

1867 L. B. MOORE died November 27,1866

1868 JOHN A. MOFFITT died November 25, 1867

1869 none reported

1870 W. M. MARTIN died Sept. 26, 1870; J. B. KIZER died August 4, 1870

1871 S. R. CHAPLIN, no death date given

1872 W. A. H. CARRAWAY died February 1872

1873 ALLEN AZBILL died March 1872

1874 JAMES HART died May 30, 1874; W. R. WILSON died August 2, 1874

1875 R. CUNNINGHAM died January 8, 1875

1876 WILLIAM READ, JR. died May 16, 1876

1877 W. J. PHILLIPS died October 23, 1877; WESLEY MARTIN died, no death date given

1878 W. J. PHILLIPS died December 1877 /Apparently the 1877 may be accepted as the more reliable death date given for this man/

1879 JOHN L. REED, L. N. TIMBERLAKE died, no death dates given

1880 JAMES RUSH died March 30, 1880; H. T. JONES died November 1879

1881 none reported

1882 J. J. ROGGERS died, no death date given

1883 E. C. WILSON died May 13, 1883

1884 none reported

1885 J. A. HENRY died April 12, 1884; E. W. CUNNINGHAM died Sept.14, 1884

1886 none reported

1887 THOMAS FESMIRE died February 27, 1886

1888 none reported

1889 J. W. LEE died May 25, 1888; L. S. HART died July 17,1888

1890 G. R. EWAN and M. L. GALLAWAY died, no death dates given

1891 T. A. SMITH died October 18, 1891

1892 A. A. RHODES died February 2, 1892; J. A. TEAGUE died September 8, 1892

1893 none reported

1894 A. R. JOWERS died February 28, 1894

1895 S. M. YOUNG died April 27, 1895

1896 JAMES HAM died October 16, 1896

1897 J. S. LEE died; no date given; C. M. WHITE died April 27, 1897

1898 J. J. LANCASTER died November 27, 1898

1899 RILEY JOHNSON died, no death date given

1900-1904 none reported

1905 SAMUEL HOWARD died November 7, 1905

1906 WILLIAM THOMAS died Aug. 6, 1906; J. M. BURCKER, J. W. CONNEY, no death dates

1907 G. W. WHITE died in 1907

1908J OHN M. WADLEY died Feb. 6, 1908; W. H. WILSON died Feb. 27, 1908

1909 E. B. BURKETT died October 8, 1909

1910 J. W. DROKE, no date; O. K. MURRAY died Feb. 29, 1910; HENRY ZIMMERLE died March 29, 1910

1911 H. P. DENVER died Jan. 11, 1911; Z. B. BALLARD died Nov. 20, 1911

1912 JAMES FESMIRE, no date; R. H. RHODES died October 11, 1912

1913 E. M. BETTS, no death date given

1914 J. H. GARNER, no date; ELI JOHNSON died May 20, 1914; J. E. WINSLOW died July 3, 1914; A. W. WILSON died Jan. 7, 1914; C. H. WYNNE died May 3, 1914

1915 HENRY McCALL died January 7, 1915; I. H. RHODES died, no date given

1916 J. A. ELLER died June 25, 1916; A. GRIGGS died July 15, 1916; J. L. MURRAY died Dec. 10, 1916; L. AZBILL died January 1916

1917 D. E. SCOTT died October 24, 1917

1918 C. C. DAVIS died Dec. 21, 1917; A. J. ENGLAND died October 9, 1918

1919 G. B. WALLACE died June 27, 1919; J. H. GILLIAM died Sept. 14, 1919

1920 W. J. JOHNSON died, no date; W. C. MILLER died Jan. 11, 1920; W. E. AZBILL died January 17, 1920

1921 A. HENRY died Dec. 6, 1920; M. A. HARE died April 11, 1921; G. C. McCALL died September 9, 1921

1922 W. M. AUTRY died Dec. 28, 1921; J. F. MARTIN died March 17, 1922; J. C. PETERSON died June 10, 1922; J. S. TEAGUE died December 14, 1921

1923 T. H. WINSLOW died Jan. 21, 1923; JAMES A. HATCHETT died Aug. 15, 1923; STEPHEN T. GOFF died October 10, 1923

1924 WILLIAM F. APPLEBY died Feb. 28, 1924; L. B. JOHNSON died Mar. 11, 1924; H. E. GRAPER died September 12,1924

1925 J. C. MARTIN died Nov.13, 1924; E. O. SCOTT died Jan.6, 1925; A. T. RINGOLD died September 12, 1925

1926 T. D. BIRD died June 1926; G. B. GIBSON died Apr. 22, 1926; R. W. STEWART died September 27, 1926

1927 R. H. MILAM died March 2, 1927

1928 E. F. HAYS died March 23, 1928

1929 EDWARD C. HOOKS died September 2, 1929

1930 A. JACK OWENS died Oct. 29, 1930; PAUL PARKER died Aug. 19, 1930; G. REUBIN STARKS died December 24, 1929

1931 DORSEY STEWART died June 14, 1931; LESLIE GIBSON died April 3, 1931

1932 L. E. CONNOR died Jan. 7, 1932; COOPER C. SWEATT died Aug.6, 1932; GEORGE A. THOMPSON died Aug. 3, 1932

1933 Rev. J. H. CASON died August 19, 1933

1934 WILL A. LYNN died Dec. 27, 1933; Dr. W. T. WATSON died Jan. 20, 1934; J. FRANK KENT died September 18, 1934

1935 JOE F. ROCKHOLT died Jan. 6, 1935; THOS. H. GILLIAM died Mar. 9, 1935; LEE W. LITTLE died April 6, 1935; LEO H. PEARSON died August 16, 1935

Other works by Jonathan K. T. Smith can be found at the Madison County Records Repository at TNGenWeb.