The marriage didn’t last as I note in my posting about her family …

1930 US Census. By now, Violet (36) is Mrs. William DAVIS (he is 42) living in Whitestown, Oneida County, NY. They rented their place at 462 Main Street for $26 a month. Along with 12 year old daughter Evelyn Davis, Violet’s younger brother and his family live with them. William BROADHURST (32), his wife Emily BROADHURST (30) and their son Lawrence BROADHURST (6) share the household. Both Williams work at the gas and electric company, Davis as a machinist and Broadhurst as a laborer.  Violet is a “finisher” in a cotton mill. It appears that William DAVIS had been married before as it’s reported that he was 25 years old at his first marriage. Violet is reported at 24 at her first marriage.

By the the 1910s at least there were more lodges or “Herds” as they were called. One, Lowell Herd Number 10 had a few of our family members, let me know of others!

James E. Hughes

He was the first husband of Violet Broadhurst and by 1915 was the “Supreme Trustee” and in 1916 was the General Manager of the Herd

John Richard Broadhurst

My grand-uncle and in 1916 was on the reception committee along with ..

Peter Ernest Broadhurst

My Grandfather.

Frank A. Crossley

Husband of Frances Mary Broadhurst and Past President of the Herd and in 1916 he was the Assistant Manager

You can read about their third annual concert and dance from the January 28, 1916, Lowell Sun here …

And their 1915 meeting from the Lowell Sun of October 2, 1915 here …

And one more …

From the 1907 The cyclopædia of fraternities By Albert Clark Stevens:

“untraced and unsuspected Benevolent Order of Buffaloes Whether or not the original Benevolent Order of Buffaloes a social secret organization in England had any more to do with the forming of the American secret society by the same name which consists of one Lodge in Philadelphia and one in New York has not been ascertained The New York body was organized May 1 1881 The Order pays sick and death benefits and in reply to inquiries states that the Philadelphia and New York Lodges are the only ones in existence”