"We Cannot Walk Alone:" Images and History of the African-American Community.
Lafayette County, Mississippi. An "Open Doors Exhibition." April through August 2003.

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Masonic Lodge
Written by Mrs. Susie Marshall

"The Masonic Lodge in Oxford is the Stringer Grand Oxford Lodge #16. It consists of over 60 members who have been active in providing scholarships and various other service projects. It includes the organizations of the Eastern Star, Heroines of Jerico, and the Household of Ruth. The lodge in the past has included a death and life benefit plan in which members were charged a penny a day and received $250 for funeral costs."

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Cover for the September 29, 1978 program for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Masonic Lodge.

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