Sir Knight John W. Smith

Died in Memphis Tenn. Dec. 18, 1877

Aged 86 years

A Master Mason, Royal Arch

and Knight Templar

62 years a Mason and

first Deputy Grand Master

of the Grand Lodge of Kansas

Erected by the Masonic Fraternity

of Kansas in memory of the

first W. M. & Founder of

Smithton Lodge No. 1 A.F.&A.M.

Daniel D. Vanderslice

Feb. 10, 1799-Feb. 5, 1889

First Junior Warden Smithton Lodge No. 1

First Grand Junior Warden Grand Lodge

This monument was erected by the M. W. Grand

Lodge of A.F.&A.M. of Kansas in 1926 to replace

a beautiful symbolic metal shaft destroyed by

the elements and which was erected by the

Grand Lodge and Smithton Lodge No. 1 in 1878

Courtesy hmdb.org

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