Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento, author

By Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; J uris Doctor Whenever I travel, I always try to visit historic cemeteries. This is because cemeteries are actually living history books when it comes to fraternity affiliations and symbols. Cemeteries are a place where you can observe and witness a number of deceased people still proudly representing their fraternity or fraternities even after their last breath. The “Three Links Chain” combined with the “Square and Compass” are two fraternal symbols that you can find in a number of historic tombstones. This means that the deceased was a member of both the Odd Fellows and the Freemasons. A Freemason-Odd Fellow tombstone at Lone Fir Cemetery in South Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Holding dual membership in these ancient and historic fraternities is quite prevalent and still is common even until today. The first documented person to be a member of both regular Freemasonry and Odd Fellowship w...