Masonic Veterans Association

[Ecosse]

Greetings, trying to track down information on the above association. Think it started in or around Brooklyn late 1800. We have an association along the same lines here in Scotland but history-wise information pretty much non-existant. Any help would be appreciated. S&F

 

[George Stewart]

Greetings, trying to track down information on the above association. Think it started in or around Brooklyn late 1800. We have an association along the same lines here in Scotland but history-wise information pretty much non-existant. Any help would be appreciated. S&F

Greetings Bro. To my knowledge this group was in fact formed in Brooklyn, N.Y. around 1900. My Great Grandfather, Issac Snedeker Waters, was the Secretary from 1902 until 1926. A quote from their apparent cause for a Charter is as follows:
We Masonic Veterans are many or most of us old men: many of us approaching 3 score years of age, some of us 4 score, some of us more. Our most cherished thoughts and memories are more or less largely of the long ago................. With the friends and companions of our youth and early manhood mostly gone we feel perforce more or less lonely, sad, and alone. As the poet says:
One by one we miss the handclasps, that so warm a welcome gave,
One by one the voice is silenced in the stillness of the grave.
One by one we miss the faces of the loved ones to us blest
One by one neath names are written, ceased from labor, home to rest.

The Brooklyn Masonic Veterans appears to have followed the following prayer:
Help us to help each other, each others cross to bear.
May each some gracious aid afford, and lift the others care.
Touched by the lodestone of Thy love, may all our hearts agree
We'll ever for each other act, and ever trust in Thee.

I do not know if this group in still active but it ought to be.
Fraternally
George EE Stewart PM

 

[George Stewart]

Just found the formation date, December 15th, 1888

 

[Bloke]

http://www.businesslookup.org/brooklyn_masonic_veterans
NYS DOS ID# 24892


That might help, but it looks defunct.

Or ask the historical society
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_147_fraternal_organizations/

128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
718-222-4111
library@brooklynhistory.org