Tingley Lodge was instituted January 21, 1907. The fourteen charter members were M. S. CONWAY, W. E. BURLEIGH, J. E. OGDEN, J. W. RICHARDSON, Luke SHAY, R. D. NELSON, F. G. HAUSZ, H. H. DUFTY, S. H. HEATON, J. S. CLAYPOOL, Joseph ENGLAND, Jacob ENGLAND, James ARCHIBOLD, and A. J. BRETZ.

Membership was made up of high and low; rich and poor; learned and unlearned where they taught the Universal Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God.

This fellowship of lodge members sat by the bedside of ill members and supplied money for sick benefits.

SOURCE: Tingley, Iowa Centennial: 1883 - 1983. p. 110. PSI, Inc. Belmond IA. 1983.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, September of 2011