Twiggs-Laurens-Pulaski County GaArchives History .....LIBERTY HILL MASONIC LODGE NO. 308, Dry Branch, GA 1876
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LIBERTY HILL MASONIC LODGE NO. 308
Dry Branch, Georgia
 
The Liberty Hill Lodge was chartered October 31, 1876.  The present Lodge 
Building is the third to house the Masonic Order:
 
The first being the second story of the old Liberty Hill Methodist Church on 
the east bank of Big Sandy Creek near Myrick's Mill;
The second meeting hall (1913) was the second story of Antioch Baptist Church 
located near the west bank of Big Sandy Creek and;
The third and permanent home of the Lodge was erected in 1951 about two miles 
west of Antioch Church on the Dry Branch-Gordon Road.
 
Charter members were J. Balkcom, J.U. Burkett, James Bobbitt, John Cranford, 
E.S. GRIFFIN, T.H. Jones, C.G. Johnson, L.A. Nash, H. Reynolds, T.M.C. Rice, 
K.F. Burkett, William Blackshear, Isaac Carroll, WILLIAM GRIFFIN, T.J. Joyner, 
J. Jessup, E.A. Nash, Wilson Pettis, D.J. Ryles, W.H. Stokes and B.J. Wood.
 
First officers were:
WILLIAM GRIFFIN, Worshipful Master
W.H. Stokes, Senior Warden
Isaac Carroll, Junior Warden
Thomas H. Jones, Treasurer
T.J. Joyner, Secretary
E.A. Nash, Senior Deacon
Daniel J. Ryles, Junior Deacon
E.S. GRIFFIN, Senior Steward
J.N. Burkett, Junior Steward
B.J. Wood, Tyler



Additional Comments:
Source:   History of Twiggs County; Compiled by J. Lanette O’Neal Faulk and 
Billy Walker Jones; Page 180:
Originally Contributed by:  E.C. Cranford, Secretary

Rev. William Griffin (January 8, 1825 – November 23, 1884) was the son of 
Etheldred Griffin and Malinda Burton and husband of Mary E. Lingo.
E.S. (Eli Shorter) Griffin was the brother of Rev.William Griffin.


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