Most Excellent Past Grand High Priest
Royal Arch Masons of Tennessee
1883 James D. Richardson

Born March 10, 1843 in Rutherford County, TN

Died July 14, 1914 and buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro

Lawyer

Speaker of House of Representative and State Senator

Member of Congress 1884-1904

Adjutant 45th Regiment, C. S. A.

Past Grand High Priest 1883

33 Degree Scottish Rite Mason

Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction for fourteen years

A midnight Kadoch funeral was held for him by the Nashville Scottish Rite Bodies in Murfreesboro