Notes for: Matilda Isabella ("Belle") Bodine
From: Lori Wichman (wichstrick at pdqnet.com)
Sent: Thu, August 01, 2002
Subject: Bodine/Foster
Dave,
In my mothers belongings I have come across an autogarph book of Belle Bodine Daughter of Daniel Harvey Bodine and Margaretta Foster. She was at a Family Reunion and it looks as though the reunion was because her and her family were headed to their new home in Oregon. her brother W.A. Bodine had also written in the book. The Reunion is a Foster family reunion in May of 1890. However there are several bodine's there.
Katie Bodine- Rushville Indiana
Francis Bodine- Greenfield Indiana
V.C Bodine (wrote your cousin)-Rushville Indiana
Rebecca Bodine -Rushville Indiana
D. A. Bodine- Rushville Indiana
C.B. Bodine- Rushville Indiana
Annie E.C. Bodine- Morris Indiana
Mary B. Bodine- Rushville Indiana
V.B. Bodine -Rushville Indiana
Ella M. Bodine- Rushville Indiana
John Bodine- Rushville Indiana
Mirriam Bodine- Rushville Indiana
Ellen Bodine- Greenfield Indiana
W.A. Bodine (wrote Belle my sister) - Morristown Indiana soon to be Oregon
Other families in her Book [#] family members represented in her book
Carr[5] (Burlington Indiana), Benson [9] (from St. Louis Mo.), Foster [14] (Decantur Mich, Edwardsburg Mich, Idaho, and Oakland Ca.), Powell [4](St. Louis Mo.), Nolan [4](Rushville Indiana), Bacon [6] (Edwardsburg Michigan), Hadden[8] (Edwardsburg Michigan), Beardsley [11]( Kalamazoo Michigan), McAnulty [16] (West Liberty Iowa, Pueblo Colorado), Graham [12](Harrison Ill, Rockton Ill, Shirland Ill, St. Louis Mo.), Starr/Knoblock [3]( South Bend Indiana), Savage[2] (Washington Iowa), Beale [1](Andersonville Indiana), Stark [2] (Indiana), Walton [2], Smith [4], Stearns [3](Rushville, Indiana)
It was a neat find and thought you might be interested. I thought you also would like to know that Daniel Harvey Bodine and Margaretta Fosters Children were not born in Oregon this little book shows that more than likely it is Indiana.
Hope to hear from you,
Lori Wichman
Working on the Oregon Bodines
I later got this from the Internet:
Isabella Bodine Autograph Book 1889-1890
Transcribed by Lori Strickland Wichman August 5-8, 2002 still in progress
Bodine
Pg 5. Dear Bell, Compliments of Katie Bodine Rushville, Indiana March 23
Pg. 13 Greenfield Ind. Feb 9, 1890
Bell, We Are all gathering home and I want to meet my friend when the trials of this is over, Francis Bodine.
Pg 27. Since levity is the soul of wit. And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes I will be Shakespeare. A long life of happiness With great regards of your Cousin.
V.C. Bodine Rushville, Indiana March 5th 1890
Pg 31. Dear Bell, May heavens richest Blessings rest on you and peace and prosperity be yours through lie. C.B. Bodine Rushville, Indiana March 21, 1890.
Pg 47. Rushville Indiana February 19, 1889 Dear Niece may Gods richest blessings ever be yours. Rebecca Bodine
Pg . 48. Dorcas A. Bodine Rushville Indiana March 3rd , 1890
Pg 52. When we all meet at home in the morning on the shores of that bright crystal sea. With the loved ones who long have been waiting. What a meeting that will be. Oh can we say we are ready Sister ready for the soals brought home. Say will he ind you and me watching waiting when the Lord shall come. W.A. Bodine Morristow Indiana. March 28th 1890
From Ronny Bodine:
In April 1930, Alexander McQuown, widower, lived in Weatherby, Baker County, Oregon.
Obituary, The Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) of 17 March 1928.
ALBANY, Or., March 16.--(Special)--Mrs. Belle McQuown, 66, who died Tuesday at Newport, will be buried here tomorrow. Mrs. McQuown was a sister of D. H. Bodine, ex-sheriff of Linn county, and was a native of Albany. She was born October 5, 1861. She was for many years a teacher in Linn county schools. She was married June 22, 1904, to Alex McQuown of Baker, where she lived until a few months ago. The widower and three brothers survive. The brothers are D. H. Bodine, Albany; Samuel Bodine, Newpoer, and J. A. Bodine of San Francisco.
Burials in Riverside Cemetery, Albany, Linn County.
(Find A Grave Memorial # 28082652)
McQUOWN Isabella Born Oct. 2, 1861 Died March 13, 1928
Alexander Born Oct. 5, 1865 Died June 24, 1943