Notes for: Mortimer Charles Bodine
LDS also had a record saying he was born in Vienna Township in Genesee County, Michigan. Another record had him born in "Lebanon, of Marion, Kentucky." And another record had him born on April 16. One other record has his birth year as 1830 instead of 1831. No source was given.
There is a Mortimer C. Bodine who enlisted for the Union at Vienna, Michigan on August 8, 1862. He was 31. Mortimer was dead by the time his father composed his will. Albertus was named, instead, in the will.
Information about his son Albertus, says Mortimer died in the Civil War. Catherine Horman's info says he was a member of 23rd Reg. Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War. He was constable in 1854 (Genesee Co.???).
Joan Best sent me the following message:
From: "D.C."
To: ; ;
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Subject: Mortimer BODINE
I have transcribed a newspaper from 1862 which contains this name. I only had access to this paper for a limited time. It is in a private collection.
I hope this helps you verify death information. Sorry, I am not related.
Donna
Source: Detroit Advertiser & Tribune
Detroit, Michigan
Monday Afternoon, December 22, 1862
Volume XXVII, Number 144
Page 1
From The Twenty-third Regiment.
List of Sick Discharged, & c.- Probable Causes of Ill-Health-Arrival of Col. Chapin-Acknowledgment.
Correspondence of the Advertiser and Tribune.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky, Dec. 17, 1862.
The following changes have occurred in the list of sick, &c., which I forwarded you, from the 23d on the first day of December.
COMPANY K
Mortimer Bodine, died in hospital at Lebanon.
From Ronny Bodine:
From: Ellis, Franklin. The History of Genesee County, Michigan, 1879, p. 371: Mortimer Bodine served as a Constable for Vienna Township from 1854 to 1855.
From Michigan Federal Census Records:
1860 (13 July) Vienna Twp., Genesee County: Mortimer BODINE 30 NY sawyer, Mariah 24 NY, Albert 4 MI.
Mortimer C. Bodine, age 31, resident of Vienna Twp., enlisted 8 Aug 1862 at Vienna in Company F, 23rd Michigan Infantry (USA) for a period of 3 years. On 11 Sept 1862, he enlisted in Company K, 23rd Michigan Infantry (USA). He died of disease in the hospital at Lebanon, Kentucky on 12 Nov 1862 and was buried in Grave No. 517 in Lebanon National Cemetery, Marion County, Kentucky.