Jimmy Rogers 
The Father of Country Music
Initiated into Spinks Lodge No. 507 in Meridian Mississippi while still a young Railroad Brakeman he had a short but productive career considering the then state of communications technology. After recording 111 songs he died from tuberculosis at the age of 36. First person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961. 33rd Degree A.A.S.R., Noble in Alzafar Shrine, San Antonio, Texas