Information Sheet

 

 

R         Daughters of Rebekah.  Joplin Lodge No. 97 (Joplin, Mo.).

558                  Records, 1892-1986.

                                    Seventeen volumes.

 

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These are the minute books and membership registers of Daughters of Rebekah Lodge No. 97 at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.  Lodge records begin with the organizational meeting of 7 April1892 and continue through 1986.  The collection also includes annual reports to the state as­sem­bly, 1904-1940.

 

Joplin Lodge No. 97 was organized on 7 April 1892.  It was the largest of the Rebekah lodges in the Joplin area.  Thirty members routinely attended its meetings, but for special occa­sions over a hundred members and visitors could turn out.  Lodge No. 97 had close social and lodge connec­tions with Zinc Lodge of the Rebekahs, and with Odd Fellows Lodge No. 287, both at Joplin.  Lodge No. 97 also regularly cooperated in installations of officers and social events with the Re­bekah and Odd Fellows lodges at Blendville, Carterville, Carthage, and Webb City.

 

The records of the lodge consist of minutes of meetings, annual reports to the state assem­bly, and membership registers.  The minutes are complete from the organization of the lodge through 1986.  Membership records are complete through the 1970s.  The single volume of an­nual reports, 1904-1940, include yearly summaries of membership as well as financial informa­tion.

 

 

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