Notes for: Joel M. Bodine
The book "Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey" by Charles S. Boyer (1962) says that Joel and Elizabeth kept an establishment called "Bodine's Tavern" aka Skull's Tavern at Long-A-Coming (Berlin, New Jersey). They had this tavern between 1821 and 1835. Elizabeth carried on with the tavern after Joel had died.
There is a Joel Bodine buried in the same cemetery with his father, William, and his wife. That Joel died December 11, 1831 at age 55, 8, 8. I'm not sure who this Joel is. This must be wrong since it seems to refer to his son, Joel. Joel would have been about 33, 8, 8 when he died; so the reading must have confused the 55 with a 33. I did have a birth date of April 6, 1798 for Joel, but the dates above would make it morel like April 3, 1798. I'll go with that for now since I don't know where the April 6 date came from.
From Ronny Bodine (August 17, 2020):
From Burlington County, New Jersey Marriage Records:
Joel Bodine to Elizabeth Nixon on 11 Mo. 18. 1820 by Aaron Lippincott.
The book "Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey" by Charles S. Boyer (1962) says that Joel and Elizabeth kept an establishment called "Bodine's Tavern" aka "Skull's Tavern" at Long-A-coming (Berlin, New Jersey). They had this tavern between 1821 and 1835. Elizabeth carried on with the tavern after Joel had died. The 1830 census records Joel M. Bodine living in Waterford Township, Gloucester County.
From "Notes on old Gloucester County, New Jersey : historical records published by the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania" the following citations are noted:
p. 70-In March 1826, Joel M. Bodine ascribed his name to a petition for a tavern in Waterford Township, Gloucester County.
p. 157-During the year of 1832, the following applications for licenses were made in Old Gloucester County which then included the present counties of Camden and Atlantic Counties: p. 159: Elizabeth Bodine, Long a Coming, Waterford Township, formerly kept by her husband Joel M. Bodine.
Joel Bodine died intestate, but an estate administration was filed in Gloucester County in 1832 (File 4038H). His three children are named in the 1852 will of his mother.
Joel Bodine was buried in Blue Anchor (aka Shreve's) Graveyard, Blue Anchor, Winslow Township, Gloucester County, now Camden County, New Jersey. In a note written by W. H. Bodine on 7 Sept 1899 to Mary Elizabeth Sinnott, compiler of "Annals..." he wrote "I was passing an old grave yard to-day called the "Blue Anchor grave yard," and went in the yard and copied from three of the headstones the following- Joel Bodine died December 11, 1831 age 33 years...." In other correspondence to Sinnott, writer Eli C. Hunter, about 1900, writes that Joel Bodine's gravestone shows he died 14 Dec 1831 aged 33 years, 8 months and 8 days which establishes his birth date at 6 April 1798.
Elizabeth Bodine subsequently married Ziba K. Tice in Gloucester County on 22 March 1835 as per county marriage records. This is confirmed in a Gloucester County deed of 27 March 1839, wherein Elizabeth Tice, late Bodine, Joseph Rogers and Caleb Nixon, all of Gloucester County, administrators of the estate of Joel M. Bodine, decd, who died intestate leaving debts and by court order sold the land of Joel Bodine at public auction on 4 Jan 1839 at the house of George Baxter, innkeeper at Longacoming, to Brittain Bishop Jr., he being the highest bidder who bid $7.25 per acre, and purchased the land at $50.06. The deed was recorded 13 Feb 1840 in Deed Book W3, p. 345.
According to Sinnott's Annals, p. 77, Ziba Tice was born 21 May 1804 and died 8 Jan 1841. On 19 Jan 1841, Elizabeth Tice, administratrix, submitted an inventory of the estate of her late husband, Ziba K. Tice, late of Gloucester Township, Gloucester County. (NJ Wills, File 4571H)
At the October 1841 term of the Gloucester County Orphans Court, it was ordered that one third of the lands of Ziba K. Tice be set aside as dower for his widow Elizabeth for which task three commissioners were appointed. [Minute Book G, p 669] The court confirmed the division of the land at its October 1842 session. [Minute Book H, p. 86] Elizabeth Tice received two tracts of land of 5 and 41/100 acres and 17 and 43/100 acres, along with several rooms at the mansion house. [Division of Lands, Book 8, p. 3241-3260.]
Elizabeth Nixon Bodine Tice likely died between October 1842, when her widow's dower was confirmed and June 1850, when the census was taken and where she is not found. She may also have died by June 1849, as she also is not listed on the Mortality Schedule for that census. Camden County was formed 13 March 1844 from portions of Gloucester County and included all of Gloucester Township where Elizabeth's dower lands and home were located. Thus if she died before 13 March 1844 it would have been in Gloucester County and if afterwards, then in Camden County.