Moses Clayton Baum, D/E
(1887-1966)
First Memorial Endowed Member
of Cross Plains Lodge

Moses Clayton Baum (also affectionately known as M. C., Mosy, and Mose) was born the sixth child of Moses Parker and Elizabeth Francis Ellafair (Bond) Baum on February 28, 1887 in Cross Plains, Texas.  He married Winnie Irene White on September 5, 1921. Of that union were born five children:.......

Brother Baum was initiated an Entered Apprentice Mason on March 14, passed to Fellowcraft on April 11, and raised to Master Mason on May 23, 1914.  He served as Junior Warden during 1915, Senior Warden 1916 and Worshipful Master in 1917.  He also served as Tyler 1920-21 and Senior Deacon 1922-23.  On December 7, 2001, by an act true and appropriate to his Masonic principle, he was memorialized by a Memorial Endowed Membership purchased in his memory by his son, Brother J. Clayton Baum.

Brother Baum was an early day rural mail carrier out of the Cross Plains post office.  He transferred to Dickens County late in his career and retired there.  Later the family returned to Cross Plains where many latter years were spent among friends and family.  He was a veteran of World War I and an elder in the Cross Plains Church of Christ.

Brother Mosy Baum was called to labor in the Celestial Lodge Above on April 23, 1966.  (Winnie Irene died in 1987.)  Both are buried in Cross Plains cemetery.

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