Friday's Photo: Mackey Lodge Members?

This photo was found in the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. It is definitely a photo of lodge members attending a funeral as they each have on the funeral aprons. I am going to assume most of the men were members of the Mackey Masonic Lodge, as the lodge was in Ringgold, Bienville Parish. Marguerite's family lived in Ringgold, and her father, E. C. Cook, was a member. Many of his Cook family can be seen as members. Marguerite's grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Martin, and great-grandfather, Joseph B. Bryan, were also lodge members. 

The photo is very fuzzy, and enlarged photos are also fuzzy and pixelated. However, I was able to recognize Thomas Jefferson Martin Senior, which leads me to believe that all or many of these men were members of the Mackey Lodge. 

Above, see one of six receipts for Thomas Jefferson Martin Senior's membership dues paid to Mackey Lodge found in Marguerite Cook Clark's files. Below, Reverand Thomas Jefferson Martin, with a short white beard, is second from the left. There is no date on the photo. Thomas J. Martin died on 28 April 1918, so the photo would have to have been taken prior to that date. I can identify no other persons in this photo. 

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Diana

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Masons at a Funeral, n.d.; digital images held by D. B. Quinn, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.