Notes for: Lewis Arnold Bodine / Burdine
Arnold is listed with them in the 1910 Census Index of Loudoun County. He is 17 years old and was born in Virginia.
From Ronny Bodine:
Loudoun County Birth Records, 1893.
Lewis A. Bodine, son of Henry H. and Caroline Bodine, born 8 Oct 1893 in Loudoun County.
As Arnold Bodine, he was living April 1910 with his parents in Loudoun County. In 1930, as Lewis R. Burdine, he and his family lived in Washington D.C. where he worked as an electrician in a power plant. Living with his family was his sister, Naomi Muse. He appears to have lived much of his life in Washington D.C. as he was so named as living there in the 1960 obituary of his brother Henry and the 1966 obituary of his brother John, but was living in Leesburg, Virginia in the Jan 1974 obituary of his sister Naomi.
From Washington D.C. Marriage Records:
Lewis A. Burdine, 25 AND Lula C. Ramsey, 20 were married 27 Dec 1919.
1940 (10 April) Washington, D.C.: Louis A. BURDINE 46 VA Power Plant Switchboard Operator, Lula C. 40 VA wife, Thelma L. 17 D.C. dau, Naomi MUSE 47 VA sister widowed Restaurant Waitress. [Note: Naomi's husband died in 1951.]
Newspaper Obituary, The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) of 9 Feb 1943.
BURDINE, LULA K. On Monday, February 8, 1943, LULA K. BURDINE, of 3533 Holmead place n.w., beloved wife of Lewis A. Burdine, mother of Thelma Louise Burdine and sister of Bertha Ramsey Castro of this city, Mary Ramsey Harris of Philmont, Va., and Harvey Ramsey of New York City. Services at the S.H. Hines Co. funeral home, 2901 14th st. nw, on Thursday, February 11, at 11 a.m. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.