From Murphy to Manteo:
Grand Masters
Let us remember the names of all NC Grand Masters! It is one way of thanking them.

1. Samuel Johnston 1787-8
2. Richard Caswell 1788-9
3. Samuel Johnston 1789-92
4. William Richardson Davie 1792-99
5. William Polk 1799-1802
6. John Louis Taylor 1802-5
7. John Hall 1805-8
8. Benjamin Smith 1808-11
9. Robert Williams 1811-15
10. John Louis Taylor 1814-17
11. Calvin Jones 1817-20
12. John Adams Cameron 1820-22
13. James Strudwick Smith 1822-3
14. Robert Strange 1822-5
15. Hutchins Gordon Burton 1825-27
16. Louis Dicken Wilson 1827-30
17. Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. 1830-2
18. Simmons Jones Baker 1832-3
19. Samuel Finley Patterson 1833-5
20. Lewis Heiskel Masteller 1835-7
21. David Williamson Stone 1837-40
22. Simmons Jones Baker 1840-1
23. Daniel Sanford Crenshaw 1841-2
24. John Hill Wheeler 1842-4
25. Phineas W. Fanning 1844-7
26. William Francis Collins 1847-50
27. Alonzo Thomas Jerkins 1850-3
28. Clement Hobson Jordan 1853-5
29. Pleasant Allen Holt 1855-7
30. Alfred Martin 1857-9
31. Lewis Slaughter Williams 1859-61
32. William Geddy Hill 1861-2
33. Eli Faucette Watson 1862-4
34. John McCormick 1864-5
35. Edwin Godwin Reade 1865-7
36. Robert W. Best 1867-8
37. Robert Brank Vance 1868-70
38. Charles Cauthorn Clark 1870-2
39. John Nichols 1872-4
40. George Washington Blount 1874-6
41. Horace H. Munson 1876-8
42. William Ruffin Cox 1878-80
43. Henry F. Grainger 1880-2
44. Robert Bingham 1882-5
45. Fabius Haywood Busbee 1885-7
46. Charles H. Robinson 1887-9
47. Samuel H. Smith 1889-91
48. Hezekiah A. Gudger 1891-3
49. John Whitaker Cotton 1893-5
50. Frances Marion Moye 1895-7
51. Walter Evans Moore 1897-9
52. Richard Jordan Noble 1899-1900
53. Beverly Sampson Royster 1900-2
54. Henry Irwin Clark 1902-4
55. Walter Scott Liddell 1904-6
56. Francis Darnell Winston 1906-8
57. Samuel Mallette Gattis 1908-10
58. Richard Nathaniel Hackett 1910-2
59. William Berry McKoy 1912-3
60. Francis M. Winchester 1913-4
61. John Thomas Alderman 1914-5
62. Franklin P. Hobgood, Jr. 1915-6
63. Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. 1916-7
64. Claude Leonard Pridgen 1917-8
65. George Stark Norfleet 1918-9
66. Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. 1919
67. Henry Alexander Grady 1919-20
68. James Cornelius Braswell 1920-1
69. John Bailey Owen 1921-2
70. James H. Webb 1922-3
71. Hubert McNeill Poteat 1923-4
72. James LeGrand Everett 1924-5
73. Leon Cash 1925-6
74. John Erastus Cameron 1926-7
75. John Huske Anderson 1927-8
76. Raymond Cromwell Dunn 1928-9
77. John Jasper Phoenix 1929-30
78. Edgar Walter Timberlake, Jr. 1930-1
79. John Wallace Winborne 1931-2
80. Herbert Claude Alexander 1932-3
81. Peter Thomas Wilson 1933-4
82. Roy Francis Ebbs 1934-5
83. Charles Bailey Newcomb 1935-6
84. James Giles Hudson 1936-7
85. Watson Newberry Sherrod 1937-8
86. Harry Thomas Paterson 1938-9
87. John Edward Allen 1939-40
88. Thomas Joshua Harkins 1940-1
89. Charles Patterson Eldridge 1941-2
90. James Edward Shipman 1942-3
91. James Walker Payne 1943-4
92. Julius Caesar Hobbs 1944-5
93. Clyde Hamilton Jarrett 1945-6
94. William James Bundy 1946-7
95. Luther Thompson Hartsell, Jr. 1947-8
96. Maxwell Ellis Hoffman 1948-9
97. Wilkins Perryman Horton 1949-50
98. Wallace Everett Caldwell 1950-1
99. Herbert Miles Foy 1951-2
100.William Henry White 1952-3





101. Edwin Turlington Howard 1953-4
102. Robert Lee Pugh 1954-5
103. Charles Harrison Pugh 1955-6
104. John Catlett Vance 1956-7
105. James Guy Johnston 1958-9
106. William Eli Hand 1959-60
107. Harvey Ward Smith 1960-1
108. James Woodrow Brewer 1961-2
109. Charles Carpenter Ricker 1962-3
110. William Edward Burrier 1963-4
111. George Dudley Humphrey 1964-5
112. Samuel Andrew Hennis, Jr. 1965-6
113. Arnold Jackson Koonce 1966-7
114. Alfred Albrecht Kafer, Jr. 1967-8
115. Robert Norman Bass, Jr. 1968-9
116. William Arthur Hooks 1969-70
117. Maurice Elledge Walsh 1970-1
118. William Watson Mims, Jr. 1971-2
119. Berl Maurice Kahn 1972-3
120. Nathaniel Cook Dean 1973-4
121. William Lee Mills, Jr. 1974-5
122. Stephen Franklin Noble, Jr. 1975-6
123. Leslie Holland Garner 1976-7
124. James Earl Watson 1977-8
125. Jacob Clyde Goodman, Jr. 1978-9
126. William Bernard Bellois 1979-80
127. Everette Stansil Aldridge 1980-1
128. Nelson Bryan Banks 1981-2
129. Ava Clarence Honeycutt 1982-3
130. Cecil Johnson Liverman 1983-4
131. Ira Boyd Hopkins 1984-5
132. Norburn Creighton Hyatt 1985-6
133. Walter Franklin McCall 1986-7
134. Eddie Phillips Stiles 1987-8
135. Lee Roy Thomas, Jr. 1988-9
136. Jerry Gordon Tart 1989-90
137. Bunn Tate Phillips, Jr. 1990-1
138. Lester Poindexter Martin, Jr. 1991-2
139. Ray Norris 1992-3
140. Richard Groves Moore 1993-4
141. William Bailey Brunk 1994-5
142. Clifton White Everett, Jr. 1995-6
143. William Henry Simpson 1996-7
144. Gerry Theodore Smith 1997-8
145. Thomas Warren Gregory 1998-9
146. Charles Marshall Ingram 1999-2000
147. Charles E. Cathey 2000-1
148. William G. Mathis 2001-2
149. Jerry R. Tillett 2002-3
150. Charles A. Lewis, Jr. 2003-4
151. Leonard Y. Safrit, Jr. 2004-5
152. Graham W. Pervier 2005-6
153. Gene T. Jernigan 2006-7
155. Wallace Berry Rigdon 2007-8
156. David Ronald Cash 2008-9
157. Dan Charles Rice 2009-10

Produced by the public relations committee of the Grand Lodge AF&AM of Masons in North Carolina,
2921 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27628 MMVIII
Author/editor: Walter J. Klein wklein(at)carolina.rr.com