Thanks Doyle:
They probably had Arkansas support from those who hired them from Virginia, the Masonic Board of Trustees of St Johns' College;
George C WATKINS, President
R L DODGE, Treasurer
Elbert H ENGLISH, Secretary
General Wm E ASHLEY, Luke E
BARBER, J J CLENDENIN, George A GALLAGHER, J A HENRY, G McPHERSON, T D MERRICK, Samuel W WILLIAMS.
as well as other masons such as Henry C CALDWELL, Augustus H GARLAND, U M ROSE, Robert Ward Johnson and Albert PIKE. Was Governor Rector a mason?
My source was from an interesting read, the 1871 writtings of Reverend John Lispscomb JOHNSON found in:
The University memorial; biographical sketches of alumni of the University of Virginia who fell in the Confederate War; Language: English Type: Book Publisher: Baltimore, Turnbull Bros.,1871. OCLC: 1394565
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http://books.google.com/books?id=dqkgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22john+baker+thompson%22&source=web&ots=3sp_VLMcT8&sig=JpITQXRbjlvb9eDw_E4MZJMMlos#PPA108,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=dqkgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=%22william+n+bronaugh%22&source=web&ots=3sp_VLMcT8&sig=JpITQXRbjlvb9eDw_E4MZJMMlos#PPA108,M1