DEATHS OF MEMBERS FROM ANNUAL RETURNS
OF CONSTANTINE LODGE, NUMBER 64,
FREE AND ACCEPTED FREEMASONS,
LEXINGTON, TENNESSEE, 1848-l935
Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Mr. Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith of Jackson has published seven genealogical miscellanies for Henderson County. He wishes to share this information as widely as possible and has granted permission for these web pages to be created. We thank Mr. Smith for his generosity. Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2001
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.
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