Jeffersonville Lodge No. 454, I. O. O. F., was organized July 20, 1870, with the following charter members: J. M. Blessing, Joseph Ilurless, R. Fox, A. J. Aldridge, O. W. Marshall, E. L. Jones, George H. Creamer, and Lewis Bentz. …

In June, 1879, a part of the membership, in the absence of the other brethren, voted to surrender the charter, sold the furniture, and appropriated the proceeds, with four hundred dollars belonging to the lodge, to the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Jeffersonville. The absentees instituted suit for the recovery of the property, and the question.is now in the common pleas court at Washington for adjustment. A re-organization was also made, …T.G. Ware, …”

Reference Data:

History of Fayette County, Ohio, by R.S. Dills, 1881, pages 653-4