Allen Page Masonic Lodge Tribute, Conecuh, AL
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[Copied from the June 16, 1860 South Alabamian]

Tribute of Respect, Masonic hall, Sepulga Lodge, No. 238?
Starlington, Ala., June 2d, 1860

      The committee appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the
feelings of the Lodge towards our beloved brother, Allen Page, who was
murdered by highway robbers on the 11th day of November, 1859, offer the
following:

     WHEREAS, In the untimely death of our beloved brother Page, Conecuh
County has lost one of her oldest, best, and most useful citizens, and the
Lodge, as well as the Fraternity at large, have been deprived of an
exemplary and worthy member, whose memory we revere, and loss we sincerely
deplore.  Plain, honest, unassuming, and an honorable high minded gentleman
in every particular.  He had been a citizen of Conecuh County for many
years, and his kind and affable disposition had won him many valuable
friends.  His social qualities and ardent affections made him a kind parent
and good neighbor, a devoted and confiding friend.  And even his murderers
had not a better friend on earth, they having applied to him again and again
for favors, and were never denied.  His love of truth and rectitude, his
ready frankness in censuring wrong was proverbial wherever he was known.  He
has left a large and interesting family to deplore his untimely death, with
whom we most sincerely symp!
athize.  But while we mourn, we mourn not as those who have no hope, for we
are well assured that our loss is his eternal gain.
     Resolved, That in the untimely death of our brother Page, the community
has lost a valuable and worthy citizen, and the Fraternity a member whose
Masonic character is altogether unimpeachable, whose virtues are proverbial,
and whose attachment to the principals of our order, firm and unflinching.
     Resolved, that we tender to the bereaved widow and family our
heart-felt and sincere sympathies in their great bereavement.
     Resolved, That as a further testimony of the friendship and esteem we
bear towards our departed brother, that his name and age be inscribed upon a
blank page in the records of the Lodge.  That this Preamble and Resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of the Lodge, and that we wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days.
     Resolved, that the Secretary furnish a copy of these resolutions to the
widow of the deceased, and the same be published in the newspapers of Butler
County.
         Coleman O'Gwynn, Moses Myrick, W.P. Myers .....Committee