1883 private laws – Ch.20 Sec.1

That in order to give permanent organization to the body or society hereinafter mentioned, organized for the advancement of the mental, moral and material prosperity of the members, and for the purpose of providing for the decent burial of their dead, and for the better. protection of their widows and orphans, the following named persons, to-wit: Andrew DeGraffenreid, Amos Wooten, John Britt, Benjamin Smith, Joseph Wood, Wright Smith, Allen Smith, Benj. Buckram, Ephraim Smith, Willis Sugg, Robert Exum and Hiram Parks, of Greene county, and their. associates and successors, be | and they are hereby made, constituted and created a corporation and body politic, by and under the name and style of the Supreme Council of the Maccabees Home Aiding Society.