I’m pleased to share the publication of my article, “Members of The Good Templars Lodge #637 at Dry Fork, Sumner County, Tennessee,” which transcribes the membership roll of a temperance organization that formed in Sumner County in the late 1870s. It appears in Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy & History, …
I’ve run into fraternal organizations recently while working on early twentieth century genealogies. They were called lodges, societies, orders, leagues, legions. Fraternal groups were popular in the late 1800s into the early twentieth century. They offered a social group, some were politically active. Fraternal organizations were so prevalent in the …
