Show f s Oldest Mason Is Dead I St. St Joseph Mo Dr Joseph Singer r Halstead the oldest Free Mason inthe in inthe the he United States possibly the oldest in the world died at his home at Breckenridge Mo at the age of He had ei eighty living descendants He saw General Lafayette in this country in 1862 He was family physician and personal friend of Henry Clay He was born in Lexington Ky March 4 1818 He was a member of Breckenridge Breckenridge Breckenridge Brecken Brecken- ridge lodge No A. A F. F and A. A M. M and will have a Masonic funeral Dr in 1841 and Mam At A t Halstead was graduated from the medical department of Trans Transylvania t college in 1841 and began practice near Breckenridge where he bought land from the government for an acre His wife died last April at atthe the age of 95 years r. r |