Stones and Bones Ep. 10 - Odd Fellows Cemeteries

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Golden Age of Fraternalism lasted from 1870 to 1920 and was a time when fraternal organizations in the US had the largest surge of popularity. These organizations included the Knights of Columbus, the Rotary Club, the Freemasons, the Shriners and the Odd Fellows. The Odd Fellows is one of the oldest orders and while they don't have a large membership today, they were very influential at one time. So influential, that the Catholic Church declared that anyone belonging to the organization was condemned. This meant that Odd Fellow members and their families couldn't be buried in Catholic cemeteries. They established their own cemeteries to fill the need and they are located across the country. Many of these cemeteries are black cemeteries and very significant for just that reason. On this Stones and Bones, we are going to explore a few of these cemeteries.

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0:00.0	There are places for our dead.
0:05.0	Places of peace and not dread.
0:11.0	Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones.
0:23.9	Welcome to stones and bones.
0:30.5	Whoa.
0:32.4	Oh.
0:34.2	Welcome to stones and bones.
0:40.7	Hello, you Sputacular People.
0:46.3	Welcome to Stones and Bones.
0:48.7	I am your host, Diane.
0:49.8	And this is Kelly.
0:50.9	Kelly, on this episode, we're going to be featuring a fraternal organization that is
0:55.7	shrouded in mystery. Ooh. The Odd Fellows. Which sounds like a group we should be a part of just because it's got
1:03.5	the name Odd in it. This is true. But this is a group who not only do a lot of charitable things,
1:09.8	but they looked around and said, there's a gap here.
1:13.2	We need some burial grounds. So we're going to establish some cemeteries. So we're going to talk
1:17.4	about a few of the odd fellow cemeteries that we have here in America. Very good. Looking
1:22.2	forward to it.
1:40.9	Okay. The Golden Age of Fraternalism lasted from 1870 to 1920, and was a time when fraternal organizations in the United States had the largest surge of popularity.
1:46.7	These organizations included the Knights of Columbus, the Rotary Club,
1:53.7	the Freemasons, the Shriners, and the Odd Fellows. The Odd Fellows is one of the oldest orders, and while they don't have a large membership today, they were very influential at one time.
1:59.7	So influential that the Catholic Church declared that anyone belonging to the organization
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