This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ware, Alden, Bird, McMurrain Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WFC.2ACI/3113.2 Message Board Post: >From the "History of Dane County, Wisconsin-1880": Sun Prairie Lodge, No. 143, A. F. & A. M., was organized May 6, 1863, under dispensation granted by Alvin B. Alden, Grand Master of the State. ... The number of Master Masons connected with the lodge during its existence is 86, of which number three have been removed by death -- Erastus Ware, J.D. Bird and John McMurrain.