Early 1900s Dum Tacet Clamat Woodmen of the World Sovereign Camp Medal

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Up for bid is an original antique pre-owned
Early 1900s
Dum Tacet Clamat Woodmen of the World
Sovereign Camp Medal.
Found at an estate sale.
This nice Woodmen of the World Sovereign Camp Medal has inscribed Guadalupe Camp No. 322, Sovereign, WOW and Dum Tacet Clamat
"though silent, he speaks".
The medal was made by t
he M.C. Lilley & Co Columbus OH.
It is gold tone and measures about 4 ¼” long and about 2 7/8” wide.
Woodmen of the World is the largest fraternal benefit society with open membership in the United States. It is an insurance organization founded by Joseph Cullen Root in Omaha, Nebraska on the 6th of June, 1890.
The first certificate of membership was issued to William A. McCully of
Independence
, Kansas on the 29th of December, 1890. Six months later, Woodmen paid its first death claim on the life of teenager, Willie O. Warner, who drowned on the 14th of June, 1891, in Niles, Michigan.
Early Woodmen of the World policies provided for a death and a monument benefit.
Gravestones were originally furnished to members for free and later were offered to those who purchased a 0 rider.
During the 1920s the Society stopped providing markers to members when the cost of gravestones increased and cemeteries began prohibiting above-ground memorials for maintenance reasons.
For many years after that, members and lodges arranged for markers and monuments on their own.
Monument
unveiling
in the South were associated primarily with fraternal, or semi fraternal, orders.
The most significant organization in the South associated with
unveiling
was the Woodmen of the World Life Assurance Society (W. O. W.). This semi fraternal insurance organization had numerous "camps" scattered across the South, and practically every man belonged.
Part of the membership creed supported the concept of a right to the dignity of a marked grave.
A policyholder could, therefore, arrange to have a monument engraved with the Woodmen of the World logo erected on his grave, the cost covered by a modest rider on the holder's insurance policy.
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