Colorado Citizen, March 22, 1877, August 22, 1878, April 29, 1880, June 10, 1880, March 24, 1881, May 26, 1881, August 11, 1881, December 22, 1881, October 19, 1882, October 26, 1882. Weimar's 1878 military company had a former Union soldier, Henry Earl Carey, and a former Confederate captain, James Daniel Roberdeau, as its lieutenants, which may have accounted for its failure. The Weimar Odd Fellows lodge is mentioned in the Colorado Citizen of April 29, 1875. It had certainly been organized only recently. The official history of the Weimar Masonic lodge states that it was organized on June 5, 1875. All that can be stated for certain from publicly available primary sources is that it was in existence by January 1877. It purchased its first property on February 28, 1877 (see Mary Hinton, Weimar, Texas First 100 Years 1873-1973 (Austin: Von Boeckman-Jones, 1973), p. 164; Colorado Citizen, January 11, 1877; Colorado County Deed Records, Book T, p. 55).