Notes for: Helena ("Lena") TenBroeck Beekman

An article in the May 30, 1882 edition of the Hunterdon County Democrat says her death followed a severe attack of typhoid fever. She is said to be Thomas C. Bodine's second wife. The first has also died. It says that Thomas had three young children to raise without "a fond mother's loving care."

From information someone posted on Find A Grave:

Joseph B. Beekman married Sarah Burniston on 15 May 1830 in Somerville, New Jersey. Sarah Burniston was born about 1808 and probably died about 1855. Joseph Beekman married Sarah L. Vroom on 5 Nov 1856 near Somerville, N.J.

Sources: U.S. Dutch Reformed Church Records . . . 1660-1926; U.S. Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 (Ancestry.com databases)