Freemasonry in Texas

Any interesting historical fun facts about Freemasonry in Texas? The Alamo, Tranquility Lodge, etc.

I did a presentation on Tranquility Lodge for my home Lodge in Maryland. The Brothers seemed to enjoy it.

Here are a few links I found. Disclaimer: I can not vouch for the accuracy of any information in those links. http://texashistoricalfoundation.org/santa-annas-masonic-membership-confirmed/ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txharris/Civic/earlytexasmasonary.txt

Famous Texas Masons David Crockett and Sam Houston were first famous Tennessee Masons.

Companion Joe said:

Famous Texas Masons David Crockett

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David Crockett never joined a lodge out here, so I guess that would mean he never was a Texas mason?

He wasn't there long enough, I suppose, but he does have a lodge named after him, so it counts.

cacarter said:

David Crockett never joined a lodge out here, so I guess that would mean he never was a Texas mason?

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That set off inside my head an avalanche of TV and movie music songs and mottoes.

Davey, Davey Crockett. King of the wild frontier.

Daniel Boone was a Man. A Big Man.

Muppets in Space! (Ooops I mean Masons in Space!) ;^)

And of course if your lodge has an organist the perfect music for a point in a degree where a bunch of Fellowcrafts are sent out on a search - the theme music from the original Mission: Impossible. The old TV show not the new movies, though I do like the new movies.

The Crockett song is wrong right from the start. He wasn't born on a mountain top. He was born on a river bottom.