in the Civil War
Albert Parsons Bellows, Eleventh Infantry
He is buried in Woodbridge Masonic cemetery, Woodbridge, CA.
Alson H. Braley, Ninth Infantry
He homesteaded a farm in Kellogg Iowa in 1866, Married Dell Anna Jackson in 1872 (Ohio), had 2 sons. Ernest, my grand uncle, Harry Jackson Braley, my Grandfather. Eventually, became WM of Kellogg Masonic Lodge 1891-3. I have the tinted portrait of him from the lodge. Died May 31, 1921 in Wesley, IA, and was buried in Kellogg. Contributed by his great-grandson Alson Braley.
Henry Bradley Brown, Eighth Infantry
The funeral service was held in the Whitingham Baptist church, following a prayer service at the house. burial was in the Niles cemetery beside his wife. The Masonic burial service was read at the grave.
Mr. Brown was a member of the Baptist Church of Whitingham, Unity Lodge of Masons of Jacksonville, and the Grand Army Post. He was the oldest man in town as well as the oldest Civil war veteran. One other veteran, Martin Fox, who is but a few months younger than Mr. Brown.
Stephen Brown, Thirteenth and Seventeenth Infantry, the "Hachetman of Gettysburg."
Listed as a Mason in Allen E. Roberts' House Undivided: The Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War.
Erastus Buck, Captain, Third Vermont, Co. I
The Masonic Lodge of Island Pond, Vermont, issued a resolution to mourn the loss of their brother, Captain Buck, who "loved the stars and stripes" and "discharged his duties as becomes a Patriot and a Mason." (Carol Reardon, "Lewis A. Grant and the Vermont Brigade in the Wilderness," in The Wilderness Campaign, Gary W. Gallagher, editor, (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1997), 228.
Charles Clark, Co. I, Seventh Infantry. See Masonic gravestones
Albert A. May, Second Infantry
Azariah Faxon Wild, Eighth Infantry
He is buried in Masonic Rest Cemetery, New Orleans, LA.
The following are identified as Masons in biographies or obituaries contained on the website.
Alford, Albert Gallatin; biography
Baxter, Luther Loren; biography
Blaisdell, Edson G.; biography
Bond, George Herbert; biography
Brookins, Harvey S.; biography
Cleveland, James P.; biography
Currier, John Winnick; biography
Flanders, William Dana; biography
Gleason, Joseph Thomas; biography
Hatch, Jerome B; biography, papers
Henry, William Wirt; biography
Holabird, William H.; biography
Kimball, Frederick M.; biography
Leavenworth, Abel E., biography
Peck, Theodore S. (Medal of Honor)
Russell, Chandler Miller; biography
Rutherford, Joseph C.; biography
Scott, Julian A. (Medal of Honor)
Wakefield, William W.; biography
Walker, William Harris; biography
Webster, Dan, son of Chaplain Alonzo Webster; obituary
Weston, Eugene Sydney; biography
Additional sources of information on Freemasonry:
Masons at Gettysburg, includes George Stannard.
Masonicinfo.com, courtesy of Ed King.
The Museum of Our National Heritage
Sheldon A. Munn, "Freemasons at Gettysburg," (Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, 1993)
