“I kind of, at times, have suggested - and I don’t like to say this: He just had his eighth kid and no job, no money,” he said. His sister said he went to a union meetin’ that night and never came back.” “He was kind of a loud-mouthed rabble-rouser. “One old aunt said the union probably killed him,” Staten, who’s now 90, said of his father. Jim Staten was an iron worker and a Mason. The family lived in a shotgun house on 28th Street back in 1928. Joe Staten was a year old when his father drowned in the Portland Canal. Their stories are ones of heartbreaking loss, learned self-reliance and limitless love. This summer, 62 orphans who once lived on the Frankfort Avenue campus came back to reminisce and celebrate the impact that “the Home,” as they call it, had on their lives. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Masonic Home and School of Texas.Watch Video: Masonic Homes of Kentucky: Through the yearsįor 150 years, the Masonic Homes of Kentucky have looked after the community’s most vulnerable - first for widows and orphans of Masons during the nation’s greatest tragedies, and now, for people of all ages. ^ Dent, Jim, Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football, 2007, ISBN 2-8.^ "Masonic Widows and Orphans Home Historic District ~ THS Atlas No.^ "Masonic Widows and Orphans Home Historic District ~ NHRP: 91002022".^ "Beyond the Chain Link Lay the Kingdom of the Mighty Mites".^ a b c Masonic Home and School of Texas - History, retrieved Archived March 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.Closing of Masonic Home Independent School District Archived at the Wayback Machine, Texas Education Agency, retrieved ^ a b "Masonic Home and School of Texas Historic Marker".^ "National Register Information System".The school's chapel is now a private facility known as the Bell Tower Chapel, a popular wedding location. The school district merged with the Fort Worth Independent School District and the buildings and grounds were sold to a private developer. The school closed in 2005 due to lack of funding because of a 6.9 million dollar sexual abuse settlement. The book would later be adapted into a film, 12 Mighty Orphans, in 2021.
under the coaches Tom Hines and Arthur (Buster) Bone, also an ex-student. In 1995, the Masonic Home won the TAPPS Class 1A State Football Championship in Groesbeck, Texas. Its 1930s football teams are the subject of a 2007 book by Jim Dent, Twelve Mighty Orphans. The Texas Historical Commission recognizes the fraternal organization foundation as a historic district geographically in the southeast quadrant of Tarrant County, Texas lineate to U.S. On January 10, 1913, under laws passed in 1905 allowing orphanages to organize their own schools, the Texas State Board of Education created the Masonic Home Independent School District. Later, widows moved to a location in nearby Arlington (closed nearly a century later during the construction of Cowboys Stadium) and the home was opened to non-Masonic orphans. In 1899, the Masons opened a home for widows and orphans of Masons.
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