CHARTER MEMBERS                                     

             J. J. Bacon                 G. M. Faust

            J. S. Baughn              Wm. Gottheimer

            N. H. Ballard             C. M. Hunter

            R. P. Bell                     Edgar Maxwell

            W. T. Bowling           J. T. Patton

            B. Chedel                    E. I. Reynolds

            Joel Cloud                  Geo. C. Smith

            E. B. Clark                  W. A. Shackelford

            G. J. Cunningham    M. S. Weaver

                         MASONRY IN LEXINGTON             

             As early as 1818 Mechanics Lodge No. 14 was located at Lexington.  Its lodge room was on the present site of the Methodist Church.  J. B. Culbreath was the first Master.  He was followed by Thos. R. Goulding, first pastor of the Lexington Presbyterian church.

             Due to the large emigration from 1825 to 1835 the lodge had surrendered its charter by 1833.

             In 1849 Zaradatha Lodge No. 83 was organized.  It held its meeting in the third floor of the old Meson academy building until 1872, when a lodge room now known as Masonic hall was built.

             In 1890 Zaradatha Lodge was moved to Crawford.

             On November 1, 1900, the Grand Lodge chartered Lexington Lodge No. 158.