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Masons Cemetery
Established 1914
Acreage: .43 acres (18,885 sq. ft.)
Number of Burials: 5
Number of Grave Markers: 1
Site Description: The cemetery is rectangular in shape and is located on a
moderate slope overgrown with vegetation. Remnants of an iron fence which surrounded the site is
evident.
The Masons were meeting as a club as early as 1898 but they were not under a charter. In 1902
members were taking steps for the organization of a lodge. Shortly thereafter they were recognized
as the Free and Accepted Masons Lodge #124. They did not secure a tract of land for the cemetery
until 1914.
The Masons Cemetery is adjacent to the Odd Fellows. The site slopes up from a small
service road and is heavily overgrown. There is evident that an elaborate metal fence surrounded the
entire tract.
Records indicate that only 5 persons were buried in the cemetery. There is only one
marker located at the northwest corner of the cemetery. It is at the edge of a gully near the rear of
an adjacent house. There are recognizable depressions in the ground that are possibly burial sites.
The only marker in the cemetery is:
- James Lindsay, born in 1879, died on September 15, 1916. He arrived in Douglas
around 1906. He worked at the Treadwell as a millman in 1914. He was the owner of a transfer business
at the time of his death. His widow, Margaret, married Edward Cashel Jr. in 1917.
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