Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dawson, William C. May 1856
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Empire State - Spalding Co, GA
William. Crosby Dawson
Tribute of Respect

At a Called Communication of Meridian Sun Lodge, No. 26, held at the Lodge 
Room, Griffin, May 10th, 1856, the death of our Most Worshipful Grand Master, 
William C. Dawson, being announced, the following Preamble and Resolutions were 
passed, to wit:

A cloud is upon the eastern horizon; the Sun of Masonry is shrouded in 
darkness!  Gloom and sadness are within the Temple of the Mystic Brotherhood, 
for our Grand Master has departed thence, never, never to return !  The sound 
of his Gavel is hushed – his voice of counsel and love is still, and the place 
that knew him in our earthly Lodge shall know him no more forever, Therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of our Grand Master, Wm. Crosby Dawson, the Masonic 
Fraternity of Georgia have sustained an irreparable loss.   His ardent 
devotion, his brotherly love and kindness, his generous sympathy for its 
principles, and his profound veneration of the wise and exalted tenets of the 
Order, eminently qualified him for the high station he filled, and won for him 
a fraternal love and admiration, which we, his brethren, can but feebly express 
in words.

Resolved, That we deeply condole with our Masonic Brethren throughout the 
State, with the bereaved family and relatives, and with the people of Georgia 
at large, who have sustained a serious loss in the death of our brother, Wm. C. 
Dawson.

Resolved, That this Lodge be shrouded in mourning until the meeting of the next 
Grand Lodge, and that the members thereof wear crape on the arm for the space 
of thirty days, in token of respect for the memory of the illustrious deceased.

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered upon the Lodge minutes, and that 
the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family of our deceased 
Grand Master, and to the city papers for publication.

A. A. Wooten, J. S. Jones, Sr., A. P. Burr, Committee  -  St. Johns Lodge No. 45


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