The Family Secret

Major General Wayne C. Smith was raised in Schofield Lodge 443, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and later became charter Master of Fort Campbell Lodge 946 of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He is the only military general other than George Washington known to be a charter Master of a Lodge. He had an impressive list of Masonic accomplishments including a term as National President of Sojourners, 1956-57. His father was not a Mason and he did not learn of his grandfather's membership until his mother was on her deathbed. Amazingly the reason for both was the same: family fears of repercussions from his great-great-grandfather's involvement in the Morgan affair more than a century earlier!