Notes for: Phoebe (Phebe) A. Bodine
There is information on this family at WorldConnect (Rootsweb.com). Phoebe's family is not mentioned.
I later found this and am assuming that this Pheobe is the daughter of Abraham Bodine and Anna Bice. This will need more evidence, though. Here is the info:
Here is some information on her from the Voorhees book. It is talking about Femmetje / Phoebe (Voorhees) Bodine, wife of John Bodine (b. abt. 1730).
The following is supposedly listed about Femmetje Voorhees in the Voorhees book on page 122:
"She lived at Sowerland, NJ.* John Bodine died intestate and the estate was administered 19 Sept. 1770 by William Van Doren and Jacobus Voorhees of Somerset Co. Fellow bondsmen was Hendrick Sedam. A letter from S. B. Powell (daughter of Phebe A. LaTourette), North Hector, NY dated 30 Nov 1876 to John B. Thompson states, "Mother received a letter from you etc. requesting history of her father's family.---- Her father was Abram Bodine and mother Anna Bice. They came to this county when mother was 4 years old. Mother's grandmother Bodine's maiden name was Phebe Voorhees." (The writer lists the names of Femmetje Voorhees' children and their spouses as given here. She states that they came from Sowerland, near Readington, NJ. The writer of the letter had visited Mr. Stine at Plainfield, NJ - John Bodine Thompson papers, Rutgers University Library.)
*Sowerland" is the Blawenburg-Montgomery area.
What the above means is that this Bodine family was originally from near the Blawenburg-Montgomery area (Hunterdon Co.) of New Jersey. Around 1789, Abraham and his wife Anna moved to the area of North Hector (now in Schuyler Co.), New York. This would go along with my assumption that the Abraham Bodine buried in the Old Lodi Burial Ground in Lodi, Seneca Co., NY is the son of John and Phoebe Bodine. Lodi is not too far from North Hector.
The following message relates to the Bodines of Fountain County, Indiana:
From: IDGAS51 at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Hello Dave,
I have found something that may be of some interest to you!!! I have found a family tree for Schuyler La Tourette - I am still checking this out, but had to share this with you right away - I believe it would have been Schuyler's Uncle (brother to his Father, John L. La Tourette): Abraham La Tourette (b. 4 NOV 1794 Somerville, New Jersey d. 9 JUNE 1875 in Seneca, New York) who married a Phoebe Bodine (b. 21 MARCH 1793 d. 1881). But what makes this so exciting is that they were married in, and lived their entire lives in Seneca, New York - Abraham died in New York, and Phoebe probably did as well because Abraham was remarried there in 1849 to Mary E. Johnson. I wonder if perhaps some of the other Bodines of Phoebe's family may have come with the La Tourettes when they moved into Fountain County? I will look into that timing for both families.
http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7832595
Best Wishes, Jan Bodine
From: IDGAS51 at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Hello Dave,
OK - I have put together a few scraps of information that may or may not represent an actual clue - I will let you decide. My theory is that the Bodine family and the La Tourette family emigrated together from New Jersey to Ohio - and then together on into Fountain Co, IN.
The genweb bio for Henry La Tourette (Schuyler's brother) lists that the parents (John and Sarah (Schenck) La Tourette) were married in New Jersey (Phoebe's mother and father were born in New Jersey, but I just cannot connect our family branch to that area yet)- but his father's family had originally settled and lived in Staten Island) and emigrated to Montgomery Co, Ohio in 1820. However, their first child (Garret) was listed in an Ancestry.com family tree as having been born in Montgomery Co, Ohio in 1817.
The genweb bio for James Bodine lists that his parents (William and Rebecca (Marlatte) Bodine) were natives of Virginia and came to Warren Co, Ohio about 1817. Montgomery Co and Warren Co are right next to each other in upper NW corner area of Ohio.
The La Tourette bio goes on to say the family then emigrated to Fountain Co, IN in October of 1829. (That same family tree shows one child (Ellen) was born in Ohio in 1828 and the next child (Mary) was born in Fountain Co, IN in 1830.)
The Bodine bio has that family moving into Fountain Co, IN in 1829.
There were a few instances throughout the years where Bodines and La Tourettes married each other. I just do not think this many coincindences should be ignored - I think there is something important in here - just not quite sure exactly what. If they were indeed traveling together, then that speaks of some sort of uncommon bond of friendship and respect that lasted over many, many years and several states. Perhaps the type of very special bond that you see between soldiers who have served together through battle? In Henry La Tourette's bio, it goes on to say that Henry's father - John La Tourette - served in the New York Militia under Capt. Trubridge throughout the War of 1812. And John Bodine served one year as Sergeant in Capt. Hugh Stephenson's Virginia Company, and served under Major Caleb Gibbs in General Washington's Life Guards - he enlisted January 22, 1777. I am wondering if perhaps John La Tourette's father (John G. La Tourette) might have served along with John Bodine??? Or some such thing??? My earliest memory of an explanation of why Schuyler La Tourette was in that photo taken on the old farm place, was that the Bodines and La Tourettes were related/connected "way, way back there somewhere along the line". I wonder if it might in fact be a reference to the marriage between Phoebe Bodine and Abraham La Tourette? Anyway, here is what I could find so far - I hope it is somehow helpful. We will be going up to see Marvin this weekend - weather permitting - I will borrow some other old photos to scan, and I will pick his memory for any other possible clues from his family stories.
Best Wishes, Jan Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From 1880 Mortality Schedule for Hector, Schuyler County, New York:
Phebe La Tourette, 86, widowed, a native of New Jersey, died of pneumonia in March.
Burials in Seneca Union Cemetery, Valois, Schuyler County, New York
Abram LaTourette Died June 9, 1875 Aged 80 Yrs 6 Mo.
Phebe wife of Abram LaTourette Died March 16, 1880 Aged 87 Years