Bill Covey (Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer and Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz) >http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html wrote: "....No Masonic Lodge exists in the world that will limit its membership to musicians or anything else for that matter. Your relative may have been a musician that belonged to a particular lodge but membership therein had nothing to do with the ability to play music. ======== My son gave me this response: >This may not necessarily be true. Since lodges choose their membership, they >can use whatever factors they choose in allowing people to join. There is a >lodge in Texas which prides itself on being a 'Hispanic' lodge. I think a lodge >which was made up of primarily musicians though, was probably one they >affiliated with after being raised in a normal lodge. > >Jack B. Pace >Sr. Technical Advisor >Davidson Communications >(713) 473-8888 <[email protected]> =============== BTW, I am trying to get a full membership list on the two early east Texas lodges so I can submit to you all the entire membership from Republic of Texas days. TTYL, Jackie Ashley Pace of Pasadena, TX http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/c/Jackie-A-PACE/index.html