Past Grand Commander’s Profile

Unto God give the glory!

Phillip Crosby Tucker

Home Commandery:   Palestine No. 3
Year Served:   1864
Born:   February 14th, 1826
Died:   July 9th, 1894

1864 Officer Corps

Sir Knight Philip C. TuckerRight Eminent Grand Commander
Sir Knight Ben A. BottsVery Eminent Deputy Grand Commander
Sir Knight Robert M. ElginEminent Grand Generalissimo
Sir Knight J. W. DavenportEminent Grand Captain General
Sir Knight W. B. BottsEminent Grand Senior Warden
Sir Knight Richard DuglasEminent Grand Junior Warden
Sir Knight N. B. YardEminent Grand Prelate
Sir Knight A. M. GentryEminent Grand Treasurer
Sir Knight Robert BrewsterEminent Grand Recorder
Sir Knight P. T. ClarkEminent Grand Standard Bearer
Sir Knight J. L. BriggsEminent Grand Sword Bearer
Sir Knight David MarstonEminent Grand Warder
Sir Knight A. C. CrawfordEminent Grand Sentinel
Sir Knight E. RavenEminent Grand Herald

Biography not available.

Obituary

Texas mourns the death of Philip Crosby Tucker, Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Texas. He died of apoplexy in the city of Washington, D. C, July 9, 1894, at one o’clock p. M.

Companion Tucker was born in Vergennes, Vermont, February 14, 1826.

He was made a Mason in Dorchester Lodge of Vergennes, and was Past District Deputy Grand Master and Past Grand Secretary of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of his native state, and was made a Knight Templar in Burlington Commandery.

He went to Galveston, Texas, November, 1852, and affiliated with Harmony Lodge, No. 6, and was Worshipful Master of it for six years. He was also a member of Tucker Lodge, No 297; Past High Priest of San Felipe de Austin Chapter, No. I, li. A. M.; Past Eminent Commander of San Felipe de Ausiin Commandery, Knights Templar; Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Texas in 1869; Grand High Priest of Grand Royal Arch Charter of Texas in 1805 and 1866 and Grand Comman ler of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Texas in 1864, and was the Representative of several other Grand Bodies to those near Texas, including that of the Grand Chapter of Vermont.

In the A. & A. S. rile he had received the highest honors, being at the time of his death, Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree for the southern jurisdiction of the United States.

He was buried with Masonic honors in Galveston, Sunday morning, July 15th.

A Companion highly appreciated in his life and deeply mourned in his death, his loss will be greatly felt by that Jurisdiction.