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She was the only child of artists Jay Bernard Plangman (1889–1975), who was of German descent, and Mary Plangman (née Coates; September 13, 1895 – March 12, 1991)
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The Golden Age of Lodges: Owls, Eagles, Elks, Beavers, Bovinians, and Moose https://hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=4639By the age of twenty in 1907 son Jay Plangman had joined his father and his brother at Texas & Pacific railroad (T&P). That year Jay was appointed towerman at Tower 55. In 1902, when he was thirteen, he had performed a piano solo for the Pocahantas women’s auxiliary of the Red Men fraternal lodge at the lodge’s state convention.
On January 11, 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt was made an honorary member of the Improved Order of Red Men.
The IORM was a fraternal lodge at a time in American history when fraternal lodges were a pervasive social force.
In 1890 the Fort Worth Gazette estimated that Fort Worth had four thousand fraternal lodge members. The population of Fort Worth in 1890 was twenty-four thousand, so by that estimate, one man in six belonged to a lodge.
In 1899 the Fort Worth Register regularly published a lodge directory. Some lodges that did not have their own hall met in a hotel or school, the courthouse, or the hall of another lodge such as Knights of Pythias. Woodmen of the World met in the Red Men hall at Main and 10th streets.
Many male lodges had female counterparts: Odd Fellows had Daughters of Rebekah; Red Men had Daughters of Pocahontas; Knights of the Maccabees had Ladies of the Maccabees.
A lodge of the Ladies of the Maccabees was a “hive.” (Ad from The Bohemian magazine.)
In that segregated era, African Americans had their own lodges in the African-American business community. Two were the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows at 415 East 6th Street and the Key West Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias, at 900 East 2nd Street.
Many men belonged to more than one lodge. B. B. Paddock, for example, was an Odd Fellow, Mason, Knight of Pythias, and Knight of Honor. Dr. William A. Duringer was a Knight Templar, Shriner, Elk, Eagle, and Knight of Pythias.
There was also the Tribe of Ben Hur, an order based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. In 1904 the local tribe held a ball at the interurban’s Lake Erie trolley park. Clip is from the April 21 Telegram.
And there was a veritable Ark of animals: Bovinians and Owls, Elks and Eagles, Beavers and Moose and Otters. Construction contractor and mayor William Bryce was a Bovinian. Also an Elk, Mason, and Knight of Pythias.
