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The Grand Lodge of Georgia Free and Accepted Masons 1786-1980 THE GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS 1786 - 1980 by William Henry Rosier and Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr. Published by The Educational and Historical Commission I The Mother Grand Lodge ........................ of the Grand Lodge of Georgia F. & A. M. 2 Masonic Traditions in Georgia .................... 3 Origin of Freemasonry in Georgia ................. 4 Provincial Grand Lodge of Georgia ................• 5 Ancient and Modern Lodges ...................... 6 Early Georgia Lodges, 1733-1786 .................. 7 Reconstituting The Grand Lodge of Georgia ........ 8 Years Without Records, 1787 - 1820 ............... Copyright 1983 9 The Lights Begin to Dim, 1820 - 1830 ......•........ 10 Masonry's Darkest Days, 1830 - 1840 .............•. Grand Lodge of Georgia II Rays Through The Clouds. 1840 - 1850 ............ 12 Brightness In The East, 1850 - 1860 ................ Free and Acc.epted Masons 13 Devastation of War, 1860 - 1870 .................. 14 Panic of the Seventies, 1870 - 1880 ............... .. All Rights Reserved 15 Centennial Year, 1880 - 1890 ....................•. 16 Jubilee Celebration, 1890 - 1900 ................... 17 The Turn of The Century, 1900- 1910 ............. 18 Masonry Marches Forward, 1910 - 1920 ..........•. 19 The Roaring Twenties, 1920 - 1930 ................ 20 The Great Depression, 1930 - 1940 ..............••. ' .! 21 World War 11, 1940 - 1950 ...................... .. 22 The Fabulous Fifties, 1950 - 1960 ................. 23 The Dynamic Sixties, 1960 - 1970 ................. 24 An Era of Inflation, 1970 - 1980 .................. The Masonic Horne Print Shop Conclusion ..................................•... Bibliography Macon. Georgia Appendix Index First Edition 1983 ,', II R. L. Roddy Forsyth New Jersey Chapter II W. L. Mitchell Athens Pennsylvania William Bacon Athens Maryland RAYS THROUGH THE CLOUDS Simri Rose Macon Delaware 1840-1850 Jeremiah Leak Zebulon Virginia P. T. Schley Columbus North Carolina Over the centuries Freemasonry has encountered countless periods of persecution Jonathan Olmstead Savannah Alabama approaching the brink of complete disaster and annihilation. Each time, due to the Emanuel Ezekiel Columbus Mississippi firm foundation of the order and the placing ofits trust in the hands ofAlmighty God, S. Chipley Columbus Kentucky it rebounded to become even greater. Almost obliterated at the beginning of 1840, Robert McMillan Clarksville Indiana there was a miraculous recovery during the succeeding ten years.! Lucian LaTaste Milled geville South Carolina GRAND SECRETARY'S SUMMARY Wm. S. Rockwell M iUedgevi\le New York3 In 1839 eight lodges submitted returns, and twenty members attended the opening Shortly prior to the Civil War the program declined dramatically. Then, during the session of Grand Lodge. There were only 430 Masons in the entire state of war, communication with other states ceased. A few years subsequent to the war the Georgia. However, the loss of members and closing the doors of lodges subsided. program was revived. From the beginning of nineteen representatives, the Grand With a mighty surge, the fraternity became greater than ever duringthe next few years. Lodge of Georgia has increased to 108 representatives in the United States and Grand Master William Dawson, in 1849, submitted the following figures ofthe 1840s: Foreign Jurisdictions. Iowa, Pennsylvania and Wyoming do not exchange 4 1840 12 Lodges Reporting 7 Defaults 430 Members representatives today. This position is now, to a great extent, honorary since the members are not 1841 12 Lodges Reporting 6 Defaults authorized to make any commitments concerning their Grand Lodges. Except for 1842 23 Lodges Reporting 3 New Charters 1843 34 Lodges Reporting 6 New Charters 907 Members nearby states, the representative seldom visits the state for which he is appointed, 1844 42 Lodges Reporting 8 New Charters lIto Members although a conscientious brother will correspond with the brother appointed as 1845 45 Lodges Reporting 3 New Charters 1600 Members representative of the other state, thereby establishing an informal and friendly 1846 51 Lodges Reporting 6 New Charters 1863 Members relationship between the jurisdictions. Proceedings of Grand Lodge are exchanged, 1847 63 Lodges Reporting 12 New Charters 2568 Members and new ideas to aid the advancement of Freemasonry can possibly be obtained for 2 s 1848 78 Lodges Reporting IS New Charters 3088 Members presentation to their own Grand Lodges. Then, during Grand Master Dawson's year of 1849, 116 Lodges reported; 36 new ••••• charters were issued, and there was a total of 4610 members. There were more At the Grand Lodge Communication of 1842 there were pronounced signs to initiations (1423) during that year than there were total members in Georgia four years indicate the crisis time of Freemasonry in the United States was over. The Committee earlier. From a deficit in the Grand Treasurer's account, he now reported a surplus of on the State of the Grand Lodge reported: $6,861 in the Treasury. Your Committee wishes to express our high gratification at the condition of the craft within our jurisdiction. The clouds which have so long obscured the Masonic sky are rolled away and the holy GRAND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA light is beaming over our State with an effulgence that may well compare with its proudest days of its NEAR OTHER GRAND LODGES ancient glory. The reveling and dissipation of which our Lodges have been with too much justice accused, are I n this decade, 1840, a communication was received from the Grand Lodge of New numbered among the things that were - and the order has assumed its true position as the open foe York requesting Georgia to name a member of the Grand Lodge of Georgia to to vice and un morality, and as the prop and support ofevery noble and generous principle which has represent the Grand Lodge of New York in this state. Also, if desired, the New York been developed in human nature.6 Grand Lodge would name one of its members to represent Georgia in the Grand Lodge of New York. Action was not taken at this Communication, but in the follow­ EARLY MASONIC PERIODICALS IN GEORGIA ing year Grand Master William Schley announced the appointment of William During the same year of 1842 the Grand Lodge called attention to a Masonic Rockwell as the Grand Representative of New York near the Grand Lodge ofGeorgia. publication, edited by Brothers Davis and Thompson of Augusta. The name of the In 1842 the Grand Secretary recommended in his report that he be authorized to publication was The Masonic Journal which the Grand Lodge recommended be read correspond with other Grand Lodges to ascertain if they would participate in the by all Masons. This was the first Georgia publication found in the records ofthe Grand exchange of ·Representatives. The response was very good, and the next year the Lodge.7 Two years later Brother J. M. Cummings, of Madison, edited a paper named following brothers were named as the first representatives of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Signal. It was also recommended by the Grand Lodge. Then, in 1849, Dr. Georgia near Other Grand Lodges: J. B. Randall of Marietta began publication of a periodical, The Masonic Journal. NAME RESIDENCE STATE REPRESENTED How long these publications continued is not known. They were endorsed by the H. Cobb Athens Maine Grand Lodge, but not as official organs. In 1851 Brother Loomis became affiliated A. H. Hansell Savannah New Hampshire with the Journal, and in 1853 the Signet andJournal was published in Marietta by Bro­ G. D. Case Milledgeville Massachusetts thers Samuel Lawrence and Mitchell. It is unknown if the Masonic Journal and the Augustus Alden Watkinsville Connecticut Signet and Journal were the same publication under new publishers and names. In James Castens Talbotton Rhode Island 71 .,n At the Annual Communication of Grand Lodge in 1852 the Chairman of the ladies, sent to the college. who were unable to pay their tuition. In connection with this. the college Committee on Education su bmitted in his report, the following resolution, which was had five pupils. beneficiaries of the Grand lodge; the Grand Master and each Deputy Grand Master being privileged to select one deserving student ...26 adopted: RESOl VED, That the institution known as the Southern Female College in Covington, Newton Due to failing health Brother Fulton was forced to resign in 1859, and J. L. Jones County, is received as tendered by the present Board of Trustees, and thata Committee ofthree, one was elected President. He had been a member of the faculty since 1853. Prosperity of whom shall be learned in the law and skilled in the department of conveyances, be appointed to continued during the year of 1860. Brother Richard Winfrey willed the school an prepare and cause to be executed the deeds necessary to the consummation. 23 endowment of $3,500. Deputy Grand Master Butler collected $6,000 toward building The institution was, on the 15th day ofJuly 1853, publicly dedicated to the purpose a chapel at the college. Property was purchased adjacent to the school which contained of education, benevolence and virture, with the imposing forms and ceremonies of our a beautiful home for use of the President, and four additional pianos were purchased. ancient order, by the Most Worshipful Grand Master William C. Dawson, aided by In attendance were 161 regular students and sixteen part time students. They came the Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master, William S. Rockwell, and in the from South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas presence of about two hundred brethren and a large concourse of admiring citizens. and Georgia. On the same day all the necessary titles to the college buildings, etc., were satisfactorily A nother year and the mighty tide ofwar began to sweep the nation. Then, in 1862, it secured, and a legal transfer secured. One condition was inserted by the Grand Lodge: was necessary to close the doors. An attempt was made to continue operation, but the If at any time it shall so happen, from any cause, that the said Institution is likely to become state appropriated the buildings for a hospital.
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