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I.O.O.F. WIRT LODGE, No. 554
The Wirt Lodge of the Indpendent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 554, was organized in 1892. Charter members were:
| Ed ROSS | G. S. LEE | John RYAN | H. C. BUNKER | James ARCHIBOLD |
Other I.O.O.F. members of the lodge included:
| Frank CARR | Luke SHAY | J. S. MAXWELL |
| H. E. GOULD | C. C. BUCK | Joe ENGLAND |
| L. L. WHEELER | M. C. NEEDHAM | Ray JOHNSTON |
| Walter WHITE | J. P. MAXWELL | George SHARTS |
| G. B. PRICE | Dick WILLIAMS | James E. HALL |
| J. H. DOLSON | W. L. SHEARER | D. D. HAMILTON |
| Ike KIBURZ | A. L. EMPIE | J. A. BLAKESLEY |
| L. W. HESS | Abel FRATER | S. W. FULLERTON |
| W. D. WALLER | John HART | Robert W. BADGEROW |
| A. J. BUTCHER | J. W. COVINGTON | Allie PALMER |
| Fred HENDERSON | Luther L. HUFF | Abel DECKER |
| Roy KENT | A. M. WILLIAMS | W. C. JOHNSTON |
| J. W. WOOLLUMS | O. K. KNIGHT | C. L. HAIGHT |
| Jens M. PEDERSEN | C. S. ADAMS | Truman HAIGHT |
| Vaughn JOHNSTON | Wayne MORGAN | Guy JACKSON |
| Guy HOLLINGSWORTH | L. E. BLAKE | J. A. ROSS |
| Charles WALTERS | Homer DICKSON | Jap WALTERS |
| Henry WALCOTT | J. P. DRAKE | J. P. HARRIS |
| J. H. BROWN | Frank P. LANDRETH | B. C. MELVIN |
| J. R. HULLINGER | Grant HANSCOM | E. D. LONG |
| George E. TRUAX | Mandard HOLLINGSWORTH | Isaac K. HIGDAY |
| H. A. GLICK | Charles E. FOUSER | Oscar FULLERTON |
| Carl F. CULMSEE | John JOHNSON | Charles D. CHRISTY |
| N. G. LONG | N. H. WALLER | Willis DICKSON |
| John STRUKER | Ralph ARNOLD | L. J. CLARK |
| T. W. LONG | Henry POLLOCK | Norman MOON |
| Glen REED | Dallas GLICK | Vern CREVELING |
| Donald FLOHRA | O. C. HALL | Malcolm DYKE |
| Glen KING | Russell KING | Lynn E. BUELL |
| John E. GROSE | Lawrence BROWN | J. W. SMITH |
| J. B. JOHNSON | P. F. JOHNSON | E. J. JOHNSON |
| John SMITH | Joe HENDERSON | Horace McKIBBEN |
| Walter A. SMITHERS | W. L. BUTCHER | W. H. CLARK |
| L. S. RYAN | Carl F. KRON | L. B. KIMBALL |
| Charles BUELL | Dale McCONNELL | George B. CRAY |
| John G. PARISHO | J. W. HILL | Ray OVERHOLTZER |
| Thomas BALLEW | Charles MOON | Earl M. ADAMS |
| Alvin J. MONROE | Ervin G. DICKSON | Porter F. HAVERLY |
| Cyril H. TRIECHLER | Luther L. JOHNSON | A. R. STEWART |
| C. W. JOHNSTON | R. P. JACKSON | John BARNES |
| Bunker WALTERS | Vern BANNER | Leland W. JACKSON |
| Cleve W. COLLIER | Willard W. HENDERSON | Clarence COURTNEY |
| George BROOKER | Don O. MICKAELS | Dwight BURHAM |
| Vincent DUKES | Dan H. CLARK | Wayne BALIUS |
| Francis SWETT | Norman JENNINGS | |
| Milo HOFF | Floyd CREVELING | John E. FOUSER |
| Ivan CREVELING | F. L. HAIGHT | L. J. WILSON |
| Charles C. COURTNEY | Clarence WOODS | Lloyd ADAMS |
| C. E. REASONER | Raymond JOHNSON | Raymond GREEN |
| Vern REASONER | Vernon LYONS | Perry WALLER |
| L. M. LILES | William DASS | Frank SHANGHASY |
| Ray H. CHRISTY | F. D. KIRKPATRICK | R. F. MORSS |
| J. D. LINKEY | Everett BUNKER | O. L. HUGHEY |
| A. C. FOUSER | J. W. WILBERT | F. R. SHERMAN |
| Hope MILLS | B. D. MORGAN | William S. HAMBLIN |
| William HOWARD | W. G. SPARKS | A. R. HOLLINGSWORTH |
| W. A. STACEY | J. H. GOOD | Aden STEWART |
| Donald WOOD | Marion CREVELING | Donald ADAMS |
| William GREEN | Kenneth ADAMS | Raymond ADAMSON |
| Glee DUNCAN | Everett GRIMM | Ed REYNOLDS |
| Roger GROSE | LeRoy WOOD | Duane O. POORE |
| Duane GROSE | Walter GROSE | Harvey BISCHOFF |
| Lloyd BEDIER | James FEEBACK | N. E. TEAGARDEN |
| A. E. SANDERSON | William MOLLISON | Thomas FOUSER |
| Lloyd McCONNELL | Raymond GLICK | Donald WALTERS |
| Clark JENNINGS | Lee CREVELING | Grover BEDIER |
| Raymond WOOLLUMS | Gar FOWLER | Lee HUNT |
| Mark OWENS | Everett SWEET | Orville POORE |
| Donald THOMAS | Kenneth REED | Kenneth CREVELING |
| O. Z. JONES | Reson CREVELING | Milton GLICK |
| J. S. DeVORE | Lloyd HOSFIELD | Frank BUTCHER |
| Floyd COLLIER | Sam WILKEY | James Charles CURTISS |
| Lawrence CREVELING | William E. BUELL | Harold Lloyd ADAMS |
| L. S. RYAN | Bert C. GROSE | Leo C. BUTCHER |
| Junior HULLINGER | Donald HULLINGER | Carl HULLINGER |
SOURCE: A Century of Memories: Ellston, Iowa 1881 - 1981 Pp. 227-28. 1981.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2010
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