Freemason.
Age 31
From George T. Hill's book, "History, Records, and Recollections of Gray Maine":
"Not far from Mr. Humphrey's grave is a large stone erected in memory of Russell Bucknam. Mr. Bucknam came to Gray as a young man from Sutton, Massachusetts, and opened a general store. Only two or three years later he died suddenly of a fever. The stone was set by the brothers of his Masonic Lodge in Sutton and shows the year of his death, dated by a Masonic calendar"
An old masonic grave in Gray, a few feet back of the old brick Town House, in the
grave yard at Gray Corner, is a very old Royal Arch Mason's grave; the deceased
mason, Russell Bucknam, who was a very prominent trader at Gray Corner, at the time of his death. His grave stone was a very costly one at that time. The inscription on the stone is this: it is headed with the Key Stone, Holiness to the Lord, Lux in Tenebris, R. R.
On each side of his grave stone is a square. The one on the left side is inscribed in the square the following words: " Here may he find peace in his Arch of Friendship." In the right hand square is engraved two sets of skulls and cross bones. What they are there for the writer does not know. It says nothing on his grave stone of his being a Knight Templar; it only says that he was a Royal Arch Mason, "Dedicated to the memory of Companion Russell Bucknam, R. A. M., who departed this life August the 13, a . l . 5,806, Aged 31 years."
Mason Token, May 15, 1903
NOTE: Russell's large and elaborate tablet gravestone was reset and cleaned in July 2023 as part of a Maine Old Cemetery Association Gravestone Preservation Workshop.
Age 31
From George T. Hill's book, "History, Records, and Recollections of Gray Maine":
"Not far from Mr. Humphrey's grave is a large stone erected in memory of Russell Bucknam. Mr. Bucknam came to Gray as a young man from Sutton, Massachusetts, and opened a general store. Only two or three years later he died suddenly of a fever. The stone was set by the brothers of his Masonic Lodge in Sutton and shows the year of his death, dated by a Masonic calendar"
An old masonic grave in Gray, a few feet back of the old brick Town House, in the
grave yard at Gray Corner, is a very old Royal Arch Mason's grave; the deceased
mason, Russell Bucknam, who was a very prominent trader at Gray Corner, at the time of his death. His grave stone was a very costly one at that time. The inscription on the stone is this: it is headed with the Key Stone, Holiness to the Lord, Lux in Tenebris, R. R.
On each side of his grave stone is a square. The one on the left side is inscribed in the square the following words: " Here may he find peace in his Arch of Friendship." In the right hand square is engraved two sets of skulls and cross bones. What they are there for the writer does not know. It says nothing on his grave stone of his being a Knight Templar; it only says that he was a Royal Arch Mason, "Dedicated to the memory of Companion Russell Bucknam, R. A. M., who departed this life August the 13, a . l . 5,806, Aged 31 years."
Mason Token, May 15, 1903
NOTE: Russell's large and elaborate tablet gravestone was reset and cleaned in July 2023 as part of a Maine Old Cemetery Association Gravestone Preservation Workshop.
Freemason.
Age 31
From George T. Hill's book, "History, Records, and Recollections of Gray Maine":
"Not far from Mr. Humphrey's grave is a large stone erected in memory of Russell Bucknam. Mr. Bucknam came to Gray as a young man from Sutton, Massachusetts, and opened a general store. Only two or three years later he died suddenly of a fever. The stone was set by the brothers of his Masonic Lodge in Sutton and shows the year of his death, dated by a Masonic calendar"
An old masonic grave in Gray, a few feet back of the old brick Town House, in the
grave yard at Gray Corner, is a very old Royal Arch Mason's grave; the deceased
mason, Russell Bucknam, who was a very prominent trader at Gray Corner, at the time of his death. His grave stone was a very costly one at that time. The inscription on the stone is this: it is headed with the Key Stone, Holiness to the Lord, Lux in Tenebris, R. R.
On each side of his grave stone is a square. The one on the left side is inscribed in the square the following words: " Here may he find peace in his Arch of Friendship." In the right hand square is engraved two sets of skulls and cross bones. What they are there for the writer does not know. It says nothing on his grave stone of his being a Knight Templar; it only says that he was a Royal Arch Mason, "Dedicated to the memory of Companion Russell Bucknam, R. A. M., who departed this life August the 13, a . l . 5,806, Aged 31 years."
Mason Token, May 15, 1903
NOTE: Russell's large and elaborate tablet gravestone was reset and cleaned in July 2023 as part of a Maine Old Cemetery Association Gravestone Preservation Workshop.
Age 31
From George T. Hill's book, "History, Records, and Recollections of Gray Maine":
"Not far from Mr. Humphrey's grave is a large stone erected in memory of Russell Bucknam. Mr. Bucknam came to Gray as a young man from Sutton, Massachusetts, and opened a general store. Only two or three years later he died suddenly of a fever. The stone was set by the brothers of his Masonic Lodge in Sutton and shows the year of his death, dated by a Masonic calendar"
An old masonic grave in Gray, a few feet back of the old brick Town House, in the
grave yard at Gray Corner, is a very old Royal Arch Mason's grave; the deceased
mason, Russell Bucknam, who was a very prominent trader at Gray Corner, at the time of his death. His grave stone was a very costly one at that time. The inscription on the stone is this: it is headed with the Key Stone, Holiness to the Lord, Lux in Tenebris, R. R.
On each side of his grave stone is a square. The one on the left side is inscribed in the square the following words: " Here may he find peace in his Arch of Friendship." In the right hand square is engraved two sets of skulls and cross bones. What they are there for the writer does not know. It says nothing on his grave stone of his being a Knight Templar; it only says that he was a Royal Arch Mason, "Dedicated to the memory of Companion Russell Bucknam, R. A. M., who departed this life August the 13, a . l . 5,806, Aged 31 years."
Mason Token, May 15, 1903
NOTE: Russell's large and elaborate tablet gravestone was reset and cleaned in July 2023 as part of a Maine Old Cemetery Association Gravestone Preservation Workshop.
Inscription
Holiness to H.T.W.S.
the Lord Lux in Tenebris
Here may he find peace
in this Arch
of Friendship.
Dedicated to the memory of Russell Bucknam who departed this life August 13, A.L. 5806: AEt 31
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