SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Annette (Carpenter) Womack
of Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA
January 1998
(Spelling was retained as in document)

BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

COMPRISING A LARGE FUND OF BIOGRAPHY OF ACTUAL RESIDENTS, AND AN
INTERESTING HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THIRTEEN COUNTIES --ILLUSTRATED--
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company (C) 1890
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SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS

The oldest institution of the parish is Eastern Star Lodge, No. 1,51,
A. F. & A. M.  This lodge was chartered February 12, 1858, and among
its charter members were men who were prominent in the civil and
military history of the parish.  William Walker, Asa Emanuel, G. W. 
Hicks, C. B. Parsons, William Luckey, J. W. Stovall, E. W. Edwards, 
Samuel Earnest, Benjamin Ussery, Philip Bernstein,  John A. Mathis,
James Brock and Joseph I. Green.  

This lodge now claims fifty-two members, and owns half of the Kelly 
Building, in the upper part of which is the Masonic hall.  

The past-masters are named as follows: William Walker, 186O; John A. 
Dixon, 1861; W. J. Edwards, 1862; J. L. Bridges, 1863; J. R. Bevill 
1864-70; J. A. Dixon, 1871; Joshua P. Cook, 1872; S. M. Brian, 1873;
Denis Mackie, 1874; S. M. Brian, 1875-81; S. M. Smith, 1882; W. E. 
Little, 1885; R. E. Milling, 1886; and Joseph Smith, 1887.  J. T. 
Wallace elected in 1888 is now master. (1890)

Temperance, literary and social organizations have sprung up and 
disappeared, leaving Eastern Star Lodge in possession of the field.


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