Kinsearching November 3, 2013

RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 3, 2013



KINSEARCHING

by

Marleta Childs
P. O. Box 6825
LUBBOCK, TX 79493-6825
[email protected]
 

     This week we will list the names of members of the Larissa Chapter in Cherokee County, Texas, for 1878-1879. The data can be found on page 83 of TRANSACTIONS OF THE M. E. GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF TEXAS AT ITS THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONVOCATION HELD AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE, IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, ON THURSDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D. 1879, A. I. 2409, AT THREE O’CLOCK P. M., which was published in Houston by W. H. Coyle, Printer and Lithographer, in 1880. (In the title, the M and E are each followed by three dots, representing the Triple Tau emblem of the organization. However, for simplicity, a period is used in this column. Because many of organization’s names of offices also include the Triple Tau emblem, only the initials of those ranks will be used in this column.)

Larissa Chapter, No. 22

     Meetings held at Jacksonville in Cherokee County, on the Monday evening on or after each full moon. Post office: Jacksonville.

     Officers:

G. W. LANE – H. P.

E. B. RAGSDALE – K.

J. B. FULLER – S.

M. D. MORRIS – C. H.

John F. PATTON – P. S.

J. M. GIBSON – R. A. C.

J. E. FIELDER – Treasurer

W. F. THOMPSON – Secretary

Jack SMITH – M. 3rd V.

C. B. HARRIS – M. 2nd V.

Joseph ACKER – M. 1st V.

W. J. RAGSDALE – Sentinel

     Past High Priests:

N. M. FAIN

G. W. LANE

E. B. RAGSDALE

W. F. THOMPSON

     Past Master:

J. S. BEATY

     Most Excellent Master:

A. E. MCCARTY

     Dimitted:

Tom G. THOMPSON

(To be continued)


     Do you have any ancestors from the “Show Me” State? If you do, have you done any research in the online databases available on the Missouri Archives website at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ordb.asp? If you have not already looked at them, you will want to check them out. Among the resources you will find are searchable databases for Missouri material such as birth and death records prior to 1910, Civil War Provost Marshal index, coroner’s inquests, county and municipal records on microfilm, land patents, land records inventory, death certificates for the years 1910-1962, judicial records, naturalization records, St. Louis circuit court historical records project, St. Louis probate court digitization project, soldiers’ records (War of 1812 – World War I), and supreme court historical records.


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