12 22 1959 Odd Fellows Clerk

This is an original document from the Tampa Bay Area. 

This certificate may be of interest to Genealogist interested in:

• Hudgens family
• Major General E. C. Thompson
• Lt. Col. S.G. Dorsey
• Brig. General John A. Griffith
• Major Clyde R. Burdick

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 1700s

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows became the first fraternity in the United States to include both men and women when it adopted the "Beautiful Rebekah Degree" on September 20, 1851, by the initiative of Schuyler Colfax, later Vice-President of the United States.

Beyond fraternal and recreational activities, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows promotes the ethic of reciprocity and charity, by implied inspiration of Judeo-Christian ethics.