Frank A. Crossley and James E. Hughes were active Buffaloes in the Lowell Herd No 10 of the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes back in the early 1900s. Violet Broadhurst was Frank’s wife’s youngest sister and in 1917 she became Mrs. James E. Hughes …
The marriage didn’t last as I note in my posting about her [...]

Were any of your relatives buffaloes? No, not the big furry four-legged kind but the two-legged members of the the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes? This was a fraternal organization started in 1881 and by the early 1900s was extinct.
By the the 1910s at least there were more lodges or “Herds” as they were called. One, [...]