Notes for: Charles Wesley Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

From Marion County, Missouri Marriage Records:
Charles Bodine AND Miss Martha J. Hoffman were married 30 Sept 1874 by J. M. Greene, Minister.

In 1880, Charles Bodine lived in Barry Township, Pike County, Illinois engaged in farming. In June 1900, Charles Bodine, age 45 and claiming to be widowed, lived in Liberty, Van Wert County, Ohio working as a farm laborer. However, Charles and Martha Bodine divorced and by April 1910, Martha was married to John S. Mitchell, with whom she was living in Chicago. Their household included her daughter, Ethel Bodine, 42 and son Arthur Bodine, age 37. In April 1930, Martha Mitchell, age 72 and widowed, lived in Chicago and was proprietor of a grocery store. Living with her were two of her children, Ethel Bodine, age 53 and single, and Edward Bodine, age 48 and single.

From The Elyria Chronicle (Elyria, Ohio) of Thursday, 8 April 1915.
Findlay, O., April 8.--Charles W. Bodine, 67, was found dead in a field he had been plowing late last evening. From the appearance of the land, it is evident he fell dead over the handles and the plow was dragged around the field dozens of times before the horses stopped. Apoplexy was the cause of death, the coroner says.