USA > Ohio > Adams County > A history of Adams County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, including character sketches of the prominent persons identified with the first century of the country's growth > Part 52
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115
Isaac Wamsley, Sr., about this date settled a little further down the creek in the vicinity of the Old Forge Dam.
Then Jonathan Waite settled on the Peter Wycoff farm, and Philip Lewis built a cabin near the mouth of Blue Creek. Among the early settlers may be mentioned Jesse Edwards, John Newman, Lazalel Swim, David Newman, John Prather, John Beckman, George Sample, at the mouth of Soldier's Run and Thomas Lewis.
William Lewis, a son of Philip Lewis, in writing of the early settlers in Jefferson Township in 1879, said: "My father, Philip Lewis, came to Jefferson Township in 1797 [the land records show that he was here in 1796], and settled on Blue Creek near where it empties into Scioto Brush Creek. He built a saw and grist mill the same year. James and Joseph Williams were here when father came. They had come the year before. They were squatters, followed hunting and lived in shanties without floors. Old man Foster, also, was a squatter and settled where Wash. McGinn now lives. Jesse Edwards, who killed the big bear, came the same year father did. He was a Revolutionary soldier and lived where David Collings now does. He died at the age of 110 years.
The bear referred to was killed on our place on an ash tree that stood on the left of the run as you go up it, right opposite where Clark Compton lives. It weighed something over three hundred pounds."
Cemeteries.
In the old cemetery at Moore's Chapel, are buried many of the pioneers of that portion of the township. Few of them have grave stones, and some of these are so defaced by time as to obscure the names and dates. Hon John B. Young furnished us the following: Jesse Williams, born 1759, died December 2, 1808; Andrew Jones, born 1768, died July 19, 1841 ; James Cain, born 1739, died Febraury 1, 1836: John Williams, born in Maryland, 1776, died February 21, 1854; Mary Williams, his wife, born 1766, died August 12, 1838; Michael Freeman, born 1765, died April 14, 1835; Eliza- beth Freeman, born 1766, died April 23, 1851 ; John Wikoff, born 1774, died December 16, 1849; Katharine Wikoff, born 1779, died October 5, 1852; Hiram Jones, born 1796, died October 26, 1843; Malinda Pendil, born 1765, died 1833; Conrad Cook, born 1774, died June 26, 1833; Elizabeth Cook, born 1781, died January 30, 1840.
Digitized by Google
- - -- -
--- ----- --
430
HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY
CARAWAY CEMETERY-Henry Caraway, born Greenbriar County, Virginia, 1765, died June 3, 1835; Margaret Caraway, born 1764, died October, 1819; Samuel Newman, born at Alexandria, Virginia, 1768, died February 20, 1855; Nancy Newman, born 1771, died July 21, 1848.
Churches.
Liberty Chapel, M. P., was organized in 1837. It is in the south- western portion of township near Lynx postoffice and is known as "Green- briar."
Cedar Grove, Baptist, organized in 1871, is about one mile north of Liberty on Greenbriar.
Hill's Chapel, known as "Hell's Kitchen," on Randall's Run, formerly U. B., not now occupied.
"Mahogany," "Hackworth" Baptist, in western part of the township, in the Taylor settlement.
Christian Union, Wamsleyville, organized 1870.
M. E. Church, Wamsleyville, organized 1820.
White Oak M. E., organized 1820.
Christian Union, near White Oak Chapel, organized 1865.
Mount Unger, Baptist, organized 1872, near Scioto County line. Christian Union, Blue Creek, formerly Grange Hall.
Union Grove, near residence of 'Hon. John B. Young, built as a union house for religious and literary purposes, in 1880. Occupied by the Christian Union Church since 1883, but is free to all denominations of "in- telligence and piety."
Moore's Chapel, on Breedlove Run, near Blue Creek postoffice, was the first Methodist Episcopal organization in the Northwest Territory and here was erected the
First M. E. Meeting House in Ohio.
The first Methodist Society organized in the Northwest Territory was at the humble cabin of Joseph Moore on Scioto Brush Creek in Adams County. Writers more enthusiastic than accurate have stated that this was in the year 1793 when Joseph Moore settled on the farm recently owned by Oliver Jones in Jefferson Township near Blue Creek postoffice. But this is too early a date. There were no settlements made outside the stock- ade at Three Islands, or Manchester, previous to 1795; and this date is probably the year that Moore's cabin was erected on Scioto Brush Creek, although it may have been a year later. But in 1797, there was quite a num- ber of settlers in the vicinity of Moore's cabin, and it was here, and in this year that the Pioneer Methodist Society in Ohio, and the Northwest Terri- tory, was organized. It is stated that Dr. Edward Tiffin, the first Gov- ernor of the State of Ohio, visited the class at Moore's in the year 1797, which is altogether probable, as he located in the town of Chillicothe about the time of its founding in 1796; Adamsville near the present site of Rome on the Ohio, was in 1797 made the seat of justice for Adams, County which then included what is now Ross County. Moore's was conveniently near the line of travel from Chillicothe to the place of meeting of the courts of Adams County. About this time there was a society of Methodists in the vicinity of Simon Field's which met at Wamsley's on Ohio Brush Creek, and it is said that Dr. Tiffin frequently preached there, also.
Digitized by Google
481
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
Rev. Philip Gatch, Rev. Lewis Hunt and Rev. Henry Smith preached to these societies before the year 1800. Rev. Henry Smith, who organized the Scioto Circuit in 1799, says that "on the sixth of August, 1800, we proposed building a meeting house at Scioto Brush Creek, for a private house would not hold our week-day congregation; but we met with some who opposed it. We however succeeded in building a small log house, large enough for the neighborhood." It was named Salem Chapel, but afterwards called Moore's Meeting House.
This rude log structure erected by the pioneer settlers for the beauti- ful Scioto Brush Creek valley was the first Methodist Meeting House in the State of Ohio. It was begun in the winter of 1800 and completed the summer following. The first services held in it by the circuit preachers was the quarterly meetings in August, 1801. There stands upon the old site today a neat frame building erected through the untiring energy of Rev. A. D. Singer, who vowed that this spot so dear to every true Meth- odist should be marked by a comfortable church building in which the members might gather to worship Him who had guided their forefathers to this "refuge in the wilderness." The pulpit is a beautiful piece of work- manship constructed by Rev. Singer from sixteen kinds of native woods. The front panel is inlaid with dark colored woods so as to form the figures 1800-1880, the dates respectively of the building of the first church and the dedication of the present structure.
A writer has truthfully said that there should be no more sacred spot to Ohio Methodists than this, and that there should be erected on the site of Moore's Meeting House, a handsome stone chapel adorned with beau- tiful memorial windows bearing the names of the pioneer ministers who founded Methodism in Ohio there. The building is surrounded by a bury- ing ground where sleep many of the pioneers of Scioto Brush Creek valley.
Villages and Postoffices.
WAMSLEYVILLE, a pretty little village on Scioto Brush Creek in the northeastern part of the township and about one mile from the Scioto County line, was laid out in 1874 by William Wamsley of that place. The postoffice there, named Wamsley, was established in 1869, with William Wamsley as the first postmaster.
BLUE CREEK, a little hamlet lying along the valley at the junction of Blue Creek with Scioto Brush Creek, including the lower valley of Mill Creek, is a most charming locality. Blue Creek postoffice was established in 1844 with Isaac N. Wamsley first postmaster. There is a good Hotel near this place conducted by John W. Lightbody.
CEDAR MILLS is on Cedar Run where old Brush Creek Furnace was located. The postoffice was established in 1868, John V. Claxton, first post- master.
LYNX POSTOFFICE, on Greenbriar, was established in 1879 with E. L. Ellis as postmaster. It is named from the wild animals of that name that once infested that region.
SELIG, hamlet and postoffice, is in the southern part of the township, named for Hugo Selig, once a merchant at that point.
Digitized by Google
1
432
HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY
Schools.
No. I. White Oak-Males 51, females 31.
No. 2. Randall's Run-Males 40, females 36.
No. 3. Red House-Males 49, females 41.
No. 4. Cedar Mills-Males 29, females 36.
No. 5. Fears-Males 23, females 21.
No. 6. Hamilton's-Males 32, females 32.
No. 7. Caraways-Males 17, females 20.
No. 8. Blue Creek-Males 29, females 24.
No. 9. Woodworth's-Males 44, females 40.
No. 10. Wamsley's-Males 28, females 26.
Nos. II and 12. Fractional-Controlled by Greene Township Board.
No. 13. Mill Creek-Males 27, females 33.
No. 14. High Hill-Males 24, females 24.
No. 15. Mt. Unger-Males 47, females 32.
No. 16. Turkey Run-Males 31, females 19.
No. 17. Upper Churn Creek-Males 36, females 45.
No. 18. Shawnee-Males 14, females 21.
No. 19. Johnson's Run-Males 28. females 19.
No. 20. Cassel's Run-Males 48, females 27.
No. 21. Star-Males 32, females 24.
No. 22. Sunshine-Males 24, females 25.
No. 23. Winterstein's Run-Males 20, females 17.
REMINISCENCES.
An Old Meadow.
On the home farm of the late Newton Moore on Ohio Brush Creek, between the house and the creek, is a field of several acres which has been in meadow continuously for ninety-six years, having never been plowed but once, at the time of clearing, and which yields annually from two to three tons of timothy to the acre.
Churn Creek
is a peculiar name for a beautiful stream. It is said that a party of pio- neer surveyors while in this vicinity resolved to procure some "Old Monon- gahela" from Graham's Station across the Ohio in Kentucky, and sent one, Armstrong, to fetch it. He made his way to the Station and secured the "old double distilled," but had no vessel to carry it in. Finally, a cedar churn was procured and in it the refreshment was put and carried back to the camp in the wilds of Iron Ridge. From this circumstance it is said the stream was immediately named Churn Creek.
A Marvelous Incident.
In July, 1817, there was a "cloud burst" in the region of Churn Creek, and the waters of that stream, it is said, rose to a height of twenty feet, destroying crops, and otherwise doing great damage along that stream. Scioto Brush Creek suddenly rose from the flood in Churn Creek and vicinity, and soon overflowed its banks. Lazaleer Swim, grandfather of Samuel B. Wamsley, was then living on the farm recently owned by the
Digitized by
.
:- 1
433
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
latter on Scioto Brush Creek. Seeing an approaching storm, he sent his two little boys to pen the sheep in a building in the bottom below the house. It was in the evening and growing quite dark. Suddenly the waters burst in a swift current between the house and the pen in which the children were securing the sheep, and the horrified father saw they could not be rescued. He called to them to climb on top of the sheep pen, which they did, taking up a favorite dog with them. The flood continued to rise, and soon swept the pen with the boys and dog on its roof down the creek where it lodged in a drift of rails and logs against some large sycamore trees near where Wamsleyville is now situated. Here the children remained until the waters began to subside, when they were rescued, almost dead from fright and exposure, by their parents and the neighbors who had been aroused by the frantic cries for help and the pitiful howling of the dog.
A Pioneer Family.
Hosea Moore, whose name is frequently mentioned in the early his- tory of Adams County, had a sister, Ruhama Moore, the wife of James Kendall, of Winchester Township, who was the mother of twenty-four children, eighteen of whom were yet living in 1879.
28a
Digitized by Google
CHAPTER V.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP
Liberty Township was organized December 6, 1817, from territory taken from the north end of Sprigg Township. Under the territorial organization what is now Liberty was included mostly in Manchester Township, the western portion however was within the limits of Cedar Hill. The first election in Liberty Township was held at the house of David Robe in April, 1818.
Early Settlers.
It is said that Governor Thomas Kirker was the first settler, but it is more accurate to say he was among the first of the pioneers of this re- gion. His cabin was erected on Zane's Trace on what is 'known as the old Kirker farm in the southeastern part of the township. James Jan- uary came as early as 1796 and one year later opened a tavern on the Trace at the foot of the hill west of West Union on the Swearengen farm. About this date also came Needham Perry, Alexander Meharry, Richard Askren, John Mahaffey, Rev. Thomas Odell, David Robe, George Dillinger, Bez- ebel Gordon, Col. John Lodwick, Daniel Marlatt, James Wade and Joseph Wade. And later, James McGovney, John Stivers, Conrad Foster, and Lewis Coryell. These were mostly Revolutionary soldiers from Virginia, and to perpetuate among their descendants the memory of the cause for which they had struggled, the name Liberty was given to this township when formed. Land warrant number one issued to Richard Askren, was laid in this township.
As indicative of the frugality and integrity of the citizens of Liberty Township, a chronicler of local history in the year 1880 noted the fact that there had never been an assignment made by any of its citizens.
Surface and Soil.
The surface is rolling and in localities bordering the streams somewhat hilly. Bald Hill and Cave Hill, in the northeastern part of the township, are remarkable elevations, the first about 650 and the second over 700 feet above low water at Cincinnati. They have the same geological position as the elevations on which West Union stands and are "outliers" of the cliff limestone. Cave Hill is one hundred feet higher than West Union, and was one of the stations in the United States Geodetic Survey. The western portion of the township is in the Cincinnati or blue limestone belt and the soil is generally fertile, producing good crops of corn, to- bacco, wheat, oats and clover. The surface is furrowed by numerous streams, tributaries of Eagle Creek, the largest of which is East Fork which receives the waters of Hill's and Kyte's Forks in this township.
(434)
Digitized by Google
ยท
435
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP'
Villages and Postoffices.
FAIRVIEW, near the Brown County line on the old Cincinnati turn- pike, was laid out by William Mahaffey, March 15, 1844, on a plot of nine lots. Benjamin Whiteman kept a store there previous to that time, and a postoffice named Hill's Fork had been established with Robert Patton as first postmaster. The village contains one store, one church, a black- smith shop and a few residences.
MADDOX POSTOFFICE, established in 1890, is in the southwestern part of the township.
Churches.
The first church in the township was a log structure erected by the Christian Association or "New Lights" near the old Kirker Cemetery in 1800; but the Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation held meet- ings at the house of James January as early as 1797. See history of U. P. Church under Wayne Township.
BRIAR RIDGE M. E. CHURCH. This is one of the pioneer churches of the township and county. A log house was erected there in 1804, and afterwards a small brick, which was replaced by the present frame build- ing. Near here on the creek, Rev. Odell and Rev. Robert Dobbins founded the first Methodist class in. this part of Adams County. Peter Cartright, afterwards a celebrated Methodist divine, used to preach at Odell's in this locality.
CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH. About 1868 a division in the M. E. Church at Briar Ridge took place over questions of politics growing out of the Civil War, and many members joined the new Christian Union Association, and about 1873 erected a comfortable frame church house near the site of the Methodist edifice.
GERMAN M. E. CHURCH. Some years before the Civil War, a small colony of German families settled in the vicinity of Hill's Fork. In 1853 they built a house of worship at Fairview where services have been held, with slight interruptions, to the present time, but not as formerly in the German tongue.
LIBERTY CHAPEL, M. E. This church is on the North Liberty and Manchester pike at the crossing of the old Cincinnati road. It is a frame erected in 1879, at a cost of eight hundred dollars.
Schools.
It is said that the first schoolhouse in this township stood on the Kleinknecht farm and that an English woman, Mrs. Dodson, was the first teacher in 1803. There was a schoolhouse on East Fork near Jan- uary's tavern as early as 1805. We are inclined to the belief that William Dobbins, a son of Rev. Robert Dobbins, was one of the first schoolmasters in this township.
The following is the enumeration in each of the sub-districts of the present year :
No.
Males.
Females.
No.
Males.
Females.
I
27
20
6
II
24
2
15
18
7
17
17
3
17
II
8
21
40
4
19
21
9
19
13
5
18
18
Digitized by
-. ...
-- -
436
HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY
REMINISCENCES.
Campmeetings.
The old campmeeting ground on the Noleman farm was a favorite retreat for the Methodists in early days. There such famous pulpit ora- tors as John Collins, Henry Bascom, Peter Cartright and William Mc- Kendree preached in "God's first temples" and led repentant sinners to the "house of the Lord."
Crawford's Stable.
There were many Indians in this region when the first settlers came, after the treaty of Greenville, and they annoyed the pioneers greatly by begging and pilfering, and occasionally stealing horses. William Craw- ford, in order to protect a valuable horse from being stolen, built a stable in one end of his cabin in which he secured the animal at night.
,
Digitized by
-
Digitized by Google
MRS. MARY TRUITT MRS. ADALINE WILLSON
SAMUEL B. TRUITT WILLIAM F. WILLSON, M. D.
Digitized by Google
CHAPTER VI.
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP
Manchester was the name of one of the territorial townships formed at the organization of Adams County, September, 1797. It included a part of what is now Tiffin, Oliver, and Scott; all of Winchester, Wayne and Liberty; and, most of Sprigg Township as now constituted, including the present township of Manchester. Its northern limit ex- tended to the Wayne County line north of the site of the city of Columbus.
In the year 1806, the Board of County Commissioners reorganized the townships of the county, and Manchester was subdivided into town- ships and parts of townships bearing new names, that of Manchester being dropped from the record.
In 1858 a new township named Manchester was formed from Sprigg Township including the town of Manchester. With slight alterations the present township is now as then formed. It includes the incorporated village of Manchester and Manchester Special School District.
Early Settlers.
Under another chapter in this volume is an account of the first settle- ment in Adams County, which was made in what is now Manchester Township. Nathanial Massie and his little band of pioneers, whose names are recorded in the narrative above mentioned, were the first settlers. Their cabins were built within the Stockade which occupied a plot of about three acres of ground opposite the west end of the lower, or as now called, Manchester Island. This island, which contains about one hundred acres, was cleared by the residents within the Stockade in the spring of 1791, and the years following down to 1795, and afforded the grain fields for the little colony. In the years 1795 and 1796, many families living in cabins four and five miles back in the woods came to Manchester to cultivate patches of corn on the island. A grand-daughter of Michael Roush, the pioneer, has often related to the writer that her mother, a daughter of Michael Roush, told her that she and others of the family used to walk from their home in the "Dutch Settlement" in Sprigg Township to Manchester Island to hoe corn the first year they came to Adams County, which was in 1796. It is said that the first cabins built in Manchester outside the Stockade, were those of Nathaniel Massie, Israel Donalson, Isaac Edgington, Job Denning, Andrew Boyd, Andrew Ellison, John Ellison, John McGate, John Kyte, Seth Foster, Joseph Edgington and John Beasley. These were all in the vicinity of the Stockade; most of the terrace where the present site of the town is, was then too swampy for settlement. John McGate or "Megitt," as written in the court records,
(437)
Digitized by Google
438
HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY
was the first tavern keeper in Manchester, and his house was the meeting place for the officials of the township. (See chapter on Early Taverns and Old Inns.) In the year 1799 Andrew Boyd opened the first store in Manchester.
Villages and Postoffices.
MANCHESTER, as has been stated, occupies the whole of Manchester Township. As originally laid out, it contained 108 lots, to which have been made the following additions: West Manchester in 1839, forty- eight lots; Yate's Addition in 1843, sixteen lots; Donalson's Addition to West Manchester in 1849, twenty-three lots; Improvement Company's Addition, in 1855, 452 lots; Hill's Addition, 1858, four lots, making in all 651 lots. The town was incoporated in the year 1850. Abraham Perry was the first mayor and Joseph Shriver, the first town marshal. At the time of its incorporation it had a population of 434 inhabitants. In ten years it doubled its population ; and now it enumerates over 2,500 souls.
The first mail route in Ohio crossed Adams County. This was over Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Limestone at which latter place the resi- dents within the present limits of Adams County received their mail. In 1801, a postoffice, the first in the county, was established at Manchester with Israel Donalson postmaster. He served for twelve years when he was succeeded by John Ellison, Jr., the old sheriff of the county who hanged Beckett.
Churches.
PRESBYTERIAN-This organization was formed in 1805 from the Eagle Creek congregation near West Union. The church was incorpo- rated in January, 1814, with Rev. William Williamson, Israel Donalson, William Means, Richard Rounsaville, and John Ellison, Sr., as incor- porators. The first church building was erected, it is said, in 1807, and was a log structure which stood on the site of the old cemetery in Man- chester. The present brick church was erected in 1845.
METNODIST PROTESTANT-This church was organized in 1869 with twenty-six members. David Pennywitt, leader, and W. H. Pownall, as- sistant. Stewards: Reuben Pennywitt, L. L. Connor, Joseph Stableton. Trustees : Joseph Connell, Edwin Butler, Isaac Hill.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL-Brick church. No history of organization. ROMAN CATHOLIC-About the year 1889, Michael O'Neil, of Man- chester, succeeded after many years of unceasing effort, in having built at Manchester a frame structure dedicated to the use of the Catholic church of which he was a devout member. This is the only church of that denomination ever organized in Adams County, and as there are but few members of that denomination in Manchester and vicinity, there has never been a resident priest in charge of the church.
Lodges.
DE KALB LODGE, NO. 138, T. O. O. F .- This lodge was instituted at West Union, October 13, 1849, with the following charter members: David Greenlee, John Harsha, Joseph Hayslip, William M. Meek, and Francis Shinn. In 1855, it was removed by order of the Grand Lodge to Manchester, and was instituted there July 31, 1856, with nineteen members removed from West Union. The officers elected were: Henry
Digitized by Google
.
439
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP
Ousler, N. G .; Joseph W. Hayslip, V. G .; Isaac Eakins, Secretary ; C. C. Cooley, Treasurer.
MANCHESTER ENCAMPMENT, No. 203, I. O. O. F .- Charter granted May 3, 1876, to George Lowery, D. R. Shriver, J. W. Ebrite, I. K. Russell, John Mccutcheon, Washburn Trenary, J. H. Conner, J. W. Eylar, J. H. Stevenson, S. J. Lawwill, J. W. Bunn and Washington Kimble.
MANCHESTER LODGE, NO. 317, F. & A. M. Manchester Lodge, No. 317, was organized under a dispensation granted by Horace M. Stokes, Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, dated May 7, 1859, duly empowering the lodge to work the three symbolic degrees.
The work of the lodge was conducted by authority of this dispensa- tion until the annual session of the Grand Lodge which convened in the city of Columbus on the twentieth day of October of that year when a charter was granted bearing the names of Henry Y. Copple, James N. Brittingham, Benjamin Bowman, David Dunbar, George W. Sample, William A. Shriver, Perry T. Connelly, William McCalla, and others (as reads the charter), dated as above and covering all acts of said lodge from May 7th.
The brethren feeling justly proud of their new charge and realizing the responsibility seized their working tools and went to work with will- ing hands, and as subsequent proceedings show their efforts were not in vain, but on the contrary have been crowned with a success seldom at- tained in the annals of Masonry in this State.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.