Notes for: Sarah ("Sally") Ann Stout

Karole Kurnow wrote, "Sarah and John are buried in the West Oak Grove Cemetery in Minnesota. There is also a Martin R. Bodine buried in West Oak Grove Cemetery. He was born February 21, 1853 and died March 7, 1933. (He was married to Julia B. ? born March 15, 1855 and died Aug. 1, 1936.) It is possible that he might be a son from a previous marriage of John Bodine or some other relative of John's. On the 1910 census, Sarah Bodine McCann is listed as an 82 year old widow along with Martin R. Bodine's family -- as his mother-in-law. This doesn't make sense to me because I suspected that she might have been his stepmother or maybe his mother. (Maybe they made the mistake because she had remarried and was named McCann instead of Bodine?) On this census, Sarah Bodine McCann is listed as the mother of 5 children with only two living (Martin and Mary?)."

Karole later found out that the death certificate of Sarah McCann gave her maiden name as "Stout." Karole then found a marriage certificate for a John Bodine and Sarah A. Stout. They were married in Jackson, Michigan on May 2, 1846.