Talk:Grand Lodge of Tennessee

Odd Fellows

User:Deflagro: Are you interested in creating a similar article for the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Tennessee please? Where is the list of grand masters I shared with you?Zigzig20s (talk) 22:03, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

I unfortunately don't know anything about the IOOF and wouldn't really know where I would start. I was able to write this through familiarity with the topic and knowing where to get the sources. From looking around at IOOF articles, it looks like IOOF has one Sovereign Grand Lodge for the United States and then regional grand lodges that work underneath it. As opposed to Masonic grand lodges, which are all entirely independent of each other with their own governance and history. So there may not be as many sources available for a Tennessee IOOF article as there are for Tennessee Freemasonry; that also may explain why there aren't currently any other state-based IOOF articles on Wikipedia. While I think it'd be good to have an IOOF Tennessee article, I don't think I can really be the person to write it! I've moved over the discussion from my Sandbox talk page to here. Deflagro ^Contribs/_Talk 22:27, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Note that this is a list of the Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows of Tennessee. It gets confusing because they use the same terminology.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:34, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

We may need to create a separate article about the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Tennessee and add a wikilink to a "see also" section.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:36, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: Good find! Yeah, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a separate fraternal organization like the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Loyal Order of Moose. A lot of them use the same lodge/grand lodge/grand master terminology, but other than that they don't have much in common. I don't think the Masonic Grand Lodge and the IOOF Grand Lodge would really belong in an article together since they are different organizations. Deflagro ^Contribs/_Talk 19:52, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

I think they should be separate articles but we should definitely have two articles with two separate lists of former Grand Masters. We need to make sure our readers understand that "Grand Lodge of Tennessee" and "Grand Masters" do not always refer to the Masons. They should also be able to double-check the lists if they see the term "Grand Master".Zigzig20s (talk) 20:21, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Oliver Bliss Hayes was Adelicia Acklen's father. Perhaps he was notable in his own right?Zigzig20s (talk) 23:45, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

The bio for him in this book is simply "Born May 21, 1783. Died November 19, 1858. Buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. Lawyer. Presbyterian Minister." So I while it's an interesting connection, I don't think we have enough info to make a stub about him! Deflagro ^Contribs/_Talk 23:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

I think he was probably notable but we may need to wait for professional historians, not complete nobodies like us, to publish more research on him first.Zigzig20s (talk) 01:25, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

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