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The future of the 155-year-old Odd Fellows Cemetery in west Tamaqua and Schuylkill Township is at a crossroads due to dwindling resources and lack of manpower. As a result, the organization managing ...
“Financially, it’s rocky. We’re all right for this year but next year, we have to try to come up with $25,000 - and that’s a lot of money. We’re trying to do what we can but it is difficult,” Bailey ...
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 1030 in Charleroi is hosting an event to showcase the efforts of PA Dogs for Veterans (Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans) at 7 p.m. May 1 at First ...
Historians estimate there are about 10,000 graves at the old Odd Fellows Cemetery, near the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. About 400 of them belong to veterans. This week, thanks to the efforts of ...
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) – Community members are trying to restore a historic Black Cemetery in Elizabethton named the “Odd Fellow Cemetery.” The Odd Fellow Cemetery is located at 219 Old ...
Margaret Louise Beem, 97, formerly of Shenandoah, died Oct. 15, 2008, in Reading Hospital after a brief illness.She was a resident of Mifflin Court in Shillington for the past three years.She was p… ...
St. Joseph's Church donated the land for the mausoleum. It will be built at Odd Fellows Cemetery outside of Danville. The mausoleum will be able to hold up to 1,000 people.
He was born in Shenandoah in 1873 — the year the Panic of 1873 triggered the first great depression in U.S. history. After briefly attending elementary school, he apprenticed with a tailor.
Jun. 2—The remains of about 80 people who died and were buried in Santa Fe in the 1800s were reinterred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery off Cerrillos Road last week. Alysia Abbott, an archaeological ...
To learn more about how to participate, schedule a tour or volunteer in a monthly workday, contact The Friends of Odd Fellows Cemetery at (336) 723-6452 or email [email protected].
Established in the late 1800’s, the Odd Fellows Cemetery holds the bodies of many prominent city figures including Calvin Johnson, Knoxville’s first black millionaire, and former city alderman ...