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Stringer became a leader in the Prince Hall Freemasonry world and had a lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana named after him. [5] When he moved to Mississippi, he brought Prince Hall Masonry to the state founding the first lodge in Vicksburg in 1867 and organized the Grand Lodge of Mississippi, where he was elected the first Grand Master, in 1875 ...
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Mississippi was established by Warrant of the National Grand Lodge October 22, 1875 [12] Schisms In ...
The organization was established in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1880 by Thomas W. Stringer and others. The organization followed the organizational structure of many other fraternal organizations with a national Supreme Lodge, Grand Lodges at the state level, and local lodges regionally.
T. W. Stringer (1815–1897), a freeman from Canada and first pastor of Bethel AME Church of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi, founded in 1864 as Mississippi's first AME church. At Bethel AME in Vickbsurg, he established the T.W. Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, Mississippi's first Masonic Lodge.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
Mississippi does not require consistency among the 82 counties about how often grand juries meet to consider indictments — the formal charging documents needed to send a case to trial ...
Stringer is an unincorporated community in southwestern Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. [1] It lies at the intersections of State Highways 15 and County Road 10, just north of Mississippi State Highway 533, between Bay Springs and Laurel .