Sir Knight John W. Smith / Daniel D. Vanderslice

Sir Knight John W. Smith died in Memphis, Tenn., on Dec. 18, 1877, aged 86 years. He was a Master Mason, Royal Arch, and Knight Templar, had been a Mason 62 years, was the first Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, and was the first W. M. and founder of Smithton Lodge No. 1 A.F.&A.M. Daniel D. Vanderslice, born Feb. 10, 1799, and died Feb. 5, 1889, was the first Junior Warden of Smithton Lodge No. 1 and the first Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge. In 1926, the M. W. Grand Lodge of A.F.&A.M. of Kansas erected this monument in memory of John W. Smith and to replace a beautiful symbolic metal shaft destroyed by the elements, which had been erected by the Grand Lodge and Smithton Lodge No. 1 in 1878.

Kansas · United States