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| + | ==== JAMES LEWIS 1785-1845 ==== | ||
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| + | * MM 1807, WM ? [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StPaulA St. Paul (Groton)] | ||
| + | * ''Son and grandson of Masons; father was Master of St. Paul in 1813'' | ||
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| + | ''From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol IV, No. 5, May, 1845, p. 156:'' | ||
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| + | ''Feb. 6th.'' Hon. James Lewis, of Pepperell, aged 60 years, died in Boston, where he had been sick a number of months, (rheumatic fever.) He was a peaceful and enlightened townsman, and a firm supporter of the Masonic Order. He had held various offices in St Paul's Lodge—presided as its Master a number of years—and as High Priest of St. John's Royal Arch Chapter, in Groton, Mass. One more has gone to swell the ranks of the slumbering dead. His soul, we trust, is now reposing on the bosom of his Maker in the holy of holies; in that Temple made without hands eternal in the heavens—where our Supreme High Priest forever presides and forever reigns. A Companion saw his body deposited in the silent tomb, and drop'd the tear of sympathy there! May we all have our minds garnished in the glorious lectures of Freemasonry, that we may be fitted and prepared to enter the Grand Lodge of eternity, as workmen who have not spent our strength and time for naught When we enter into the world and discover around us' the effects of the artifice of the tempter in the Garden, passed when first behold this existence. apostate transformed into a serpent, are called from this probationary scene and prostrated in the pallid leprosy of death, the second veil is drawn behind us. In the morning of the resurrection when the slumbering ashes shall arise, and we learn that the words of the woman of Tekoa are untrue, when she declares that "we are as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up," then shall the third veil be parted before us. Though the frosts of death may palsy the mortal tenement of the soul shrouding it in the coffin, and withering it in the tomb; the soul itself remains unaffected, flourishing in immortal vigor. Thus, when the faithful die - they have only given the watch word to the grim tyrant death, and passed on to serve a better Master. | ||
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| + | - ''A Companion, R. A. Mason.'' | ||
=== GRAND LODGE OFFICERS === | === GRAND LODGE OFFICERS === | ||
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SAINT PAUL LODGE (AYER)
Location: Groton; Ayer (1871); Ashby ()
Chartered By: Paul Revere
Charter Date: 01/26/1797 tbd
Precedence Date: 01/26/1797
Current Status: Active
YEARS
1797 1804 1811 1851 1871 1872 1873 1897 1898 1899 1900 1913 1922 1928 1929 1930 1942 1947 1957 1959 1972 1977 1984 1986 1989 2000 2007
MEMORIALS
JAMES LEWIS 1785-1845
- MM 1807, WM ? St. Paul (Groton)
- Son and grandson of Masons; father was Master of St. Paul in 1813
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol IV, No. 5, May, 1845, p. 156:
Feb. 6th. Hon. James Lewis, of Pepperell, aged 60 years, died in Boston, where he had been sick a number of months, (rheumatic fever.) He was a peaceful and enlightened townsman, and a firm supporter of the Masonic Order. He had held various offices in St Paul's Lodge—presided as its Master a number of years—and as High Priest of St. John's Royal Arch Chapter, in Groton, Mass. One more has gone to swell the ranks of the slumbering dead. His soul, we trust, is now reposing on the bosom of his Maker in the holy of holies; in that Temple made without hands eternal in the heavens—where our Supreme High Priest forever presides and forever reigns. A Companion saw his body deposited in the silent tomb, and drop'd the tear of sympathy there! May we all have our minds garnished in the glorious lectures of Freemasonry, that we may be fitted and prepared to enter the Grand Lodge of eternity, as workmen who have not spent our strength and time for naught When we enter into the world and discover around us' the effects of the artifice of the tempter in the Garden, passed when first behold this existence. apostate transformed into a serpent, are called from this probationary scene and prostrated in the pallid leprosy of death, the second veil is drawn behind us. In the morning of the resurrection when the slumbering ashes shall arise, and we learn that the words of the woman of Tekoa are untrue, when she declares that "we are as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up," then shall the third veil be parted before us. Though the frosts of death may palsy the mortal tenement of the soul shrouding it in the coffin, and withering it in the tomb; the soul itself remains unaffected, flourishing in immortal vigor. Thus, when the faithful die - they have only given the watch word to the grim tyrant death, and passed on to serve a better Master.
- A Companion, R. A. Mason.
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Caleb Butler, DDGM, District 5 (Framingham, West and North), 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818; Senior Grand Warden 1818-1819; Deputy Grand Master 1824-1826; Grand Master 1840-1841.
- Frank B. Crandall, DDGM, District 13 (Fitchburg), 1929, 1930; Grand Chaplain 1932-1953
- Jeremiah Kilburn, DDGM, District 3, 1841-1843; SN
- Franklin E. Morrison, DDGM, District 13 (Fitchburg), 1961, 1962; SN
- Edward J. Sartelle, DDGM, District 11 (Lowell), 1900, 1901; Memorial
- Leon J. Winch, DDGM, District 13 (Fitchburg), 1941, 1942; N
DISTRICTS
1803: District 5 (Framingham, West and North)
