Funeral rites and ceremonies

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City of Boston memorial services program in honor of Wendell Phillips dated April 18, 1884. This program describes the order of exercises for the memorial services for Boston orator and attorney Wendell Phillips, an American abolitionist and advocate for women’s suffrage and Native American rights. The memorial service was held at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church.

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Collection includes correspondence between Ida M. Nevers of the Order of Pythian Sisters, Grand Temple of Maine, and The Rev. Shirley B. Goodwin regarding the Invocation Benediction for the 1958 joint Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters Memorial Service. Most likely were Goodwin's records as the carbon copy of his reply to Nevers is included. Also includes Lodge Prayer, program materials for the service, and a newspaper clipping about the event.

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by N. H. Hubbard to his brothers and sisters, four pages. Hubbard describes a Masonic funeral that he witnessed in Virginia, close to the North Carolina border. He explains that the Masons at the funeral "all stood in a ring again, and clapped their hands first over their heads, and then across the breast, then down at the side, repeating it 3 times." This "salute" is known as the public "grand honors." Hubbard also wrote that one Mason from each lodge threw a spade...

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Manuscript letter from William Adams, Master, St. John's Lodge, No. 4, Hartford, Connecticut, to Ebenezer Sage, Master, St. John's Lodge, No. 2, Middletown, Connecticut. Letter is an invitation to Sage and his lodge to attend a funeral service for Samuel B[urr?] of Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Content Description This item contains two letters written by L. Conger and W. R. Conger, the Vice Grand and Noble Grand of Sodus Lodge, No. 338, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to their mother describes the death and funeral of Bezaleel F. Cleveland, a revered Odd Fellow and the founding Noble Grand of Sodus Lodge, No. 338. Cleveland had died of typhoid fever, which had swept Martville, N.Y., in 1848. The two men describe conditions at Martville and make comments regarding James K. Polk’s reelection chances....

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Memorial booklet issued in memory of Clara E. Williams, with a page listing Order of the Eastern Star, Acton Chapter, No. 173; Pythian Sisters, Acton Temple, No. 226; and Acton Rebekah Lodge, No. 518 as fraternal orders attending, and a note to "take no part" for Ku Klux Klan Marion County, Court No. 14, Indianapolis. Williams' date of birth is recorded as October 10, 1866 and a patent date of 1904 is printed on the inside cover.

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The Order of Church Ceremonies details the schedule for a memorial service for a fallen Masonic Brother, name not listed.