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Prominent Members of Phoenix Lodge No. 8
John Huske Anderson
John Black
Gaylord Leroy "Butch" Boitnott
James Woodrow Brewer
William James Bundy
Dr. Wallace Everett Caldwell
John Adams Cameron
Dr. Thomas Nash Cameron
James Campbell
Robert Cochran
Thomas Davis
Louis Overton Dean, Jr.
Colonel Lee DeKeyser
James Dick
Walter Draughon
Guilford Dudley
William Duffy
Jonathan Evans
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Stephen Gilmore
Thomas Gilmore
William Barry Grove
Edward Jones Hale
John Hall
Charles Anderson Harris
John W. Hay
James Hogg
James Henry Horne
George Dudley Humphrey
Thomas Lewis Hybart
Charles Wallace Jackson
William Watts Jones
Dillon Jordan
Wiliam Rufus DeVane King
Peter J. Mallett
Hector McAllister
Rev. Colin McIver
John McKay
Archibald McNeill
David McNeill
Neill Graham McNeill
Duncan K. McRae
Alexander Murchison
John Owen
William Polk
James Porterfield
Charles Harrison Pugh
Samuel Dinsmore Purviance
William Lee Ramsey
Charles Carpenter Ricker
Thomas Gorrell Slate
Harvey Ward Smith
Robert William Southerland
Robert Strange
John Louis Taylor
John D. Toomer
John Calvin Williams
Edward Lee Winslow
John Winslow
Donald William Wooster
Past Masters of Phoenix Lodge No. 8
Carlton Taylor Adcock
David Anderson
Henry Landon Anderson
John Huske Anderson
Rajah Alexander Arab
Joseph Arey
Esek Arnold
L. W. Ashley
Matthew Atkinson
Herschel S. Averitt
Charles R. Banks
Halca S. Banks
J. A. Barnes
Willis A. Barbour
Homer Lee Biggs
Gaylord Leroy "Butch" Boitnott
Roy W. Boling
George A. Brinkley
C. C. Bryan
L. P. Bullard
Lawrence Alfred Burke, Sr.
Fred L. Burr
Archibald Moore Campbell
William F. Campbell
John Francis Carey
Nathan H. Cohen
Louis Overton Dean, Jr.
Robert Donaldson
William A. Drake
Charles W. Elliott
William B. Fleischman
Dr. Malcolm T. Foster
Francis C. Franklin
William C. Gardner
Robert W. Hardie
Billy Ray Harrell
Rupert W. Harrison
Phillip O. Hoffer
Vivian Edward Hollinshead
Thomas Lewis Hybart
William Dennis Ivey, Jr.
William Dennis Ivey, Sr.
Charles Wallace Jackson
Mancil Lewis Jackson
William Patrick Jackson
Brett L. Johnson
Jackson Johnson, Jr.
Johnny Bryant Jones
J. Ross Jones
Wilbur Leroy Jones
Robert M. Jordan
John Kelly
William B. Lafar
Leon C. Lancaster
George Lauder
Archie S. Lawhon
Jesse Avery Lewis, Jr.
Henderson C. Lucas
John Francis Lynch
Eugene Howard Madison
Roy Gray Manning
Dr. Kenneth Edward Martin, Sr.
Dr. Harold Erastus Maxwell
Frank Milo McBryde
Richard Vincent McBryde
Rev. James McDaniel
Eugene Chapman McDonald
Howard P. McDonald
Samuel Lee McDonald
Wade Knox McDonald
Thomas T. McGilvary
Rev. Colin McIver
Henry McLean
Neil McLeod
Daniel L. McRainey
Perry J. Melvin
Carlon Glen Mercer
Paul Howard Monroe, Jr.
Scott Ray Morris
Gary J. Muller
Henry Murphy
Edward C. Niendorf
Robert John Nunes
John C. Owen
William Jesse Perham
Horace William Pigg
James Porterfield
Dallas L. Pridgen
Claudius Pritchard Overby, Sr.
Richard W. Pritchard
William Lee Ramsey
Reid Hoyt Randall
Eugene L. Remsburg
Richard Fay Rockwell
J. M. Rogers
Roy Robert Sappington
Joseph Allen Saunders
Quincy Jackson Scarborough
Gregory Bruce Scott
L. W. Seawell
E. M. Sheetz
Harry Morris Sherman
John Sibley
William Gordon Signor
Thomas Gorrell Slate
Billie Coyler Smith
Therman Glen Smith
Herbert Grant Stiles, Jr.
Robert Strange
Lippman Straup
George Melvin Thompson
Thomas Albert Thornton, Jr.
Thomas Albert Thornton, III
Floyd Leroy "Butch" Trimmer
Norris M. Vallandingham
William P. Wemyss
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Rev. Robb White, Jr.
Kenneth Werner Wical
Charles Henry Williams
Gerald Manning Williams
William L. Williams
Lawrence L. Windsor
Edward Lee Winslow
John Winslow
Donald William Wooster
Joseph E. Yeago
John Westley Yerex
Mitchell Edward Young
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Membership Roster c. 1904
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Union Lodge No. ___
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2011
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2010
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2009
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1998
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