Notes for: Janett ("Nettie") Bodine

Her name was spelled Janett in the 1870 Census of Moravia, Cayuga Co., NY and Jeanette in the 1860 Census of Niles, Cayuga County.

We are making an educated guess that this Janet Bodine is the daughter of Abraham and Hannah Bodine. A descendant, Jessica Armstrong, said, "I've been looking for the proof that Abraham and Hannah are Janet's parents (other than the circumstantial). The only thing I can offer is the newspaper article stating that 'Hannah's son, Adelbert DeVoe' is the one who filled out the commitment papers to have her sent to Willard in Ovid." That is the direct evidence we have so far. More circumstantial evidence is listed below. It would be nice to have more direct evidence of this relationship. In the meantime, the relationship seems pretty likely.

The newspaper article is from the Cayuga County Independent (Auburn, NY) of May 15, 1896. It calls her "Mrs. Hannah Bodine." She was 74 years old and Adelbert Devoe is called "her son." He is the one who made the application to have her committed.

From: jesstarmstrong
Posted: 21 Dec 2007 10:39PM at Ancestry Bodine Forum
Surnames: Bodine, DeVoe

Hello all, I have come across a 1860 Census record for Niles, NY that lists an Abraham as 40, his wife Harriet as 38, and two daughters, Jeanette and Alice (13 and 12 respectively). I believe this is the Janet Bodine that married Adelbert DeVoe from Owasco. (Janet died in 1928, obit can be found on fultonhistory.com search "Janet Bodine: exact").

If anyone can confirm this, please reply to this message.
Thanks in advance.

From: bodine-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Jessica Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008
To: BODINE@rootsweb.com
Subject: [BODINE] Some new names

Hi, I'm new to the list and am hoping someone can help me make a connection:

I have Janet Bodine marrying Adelbert DeVoe, they are the parents of my mother's grandfather.

I am interested in Janet, obviously.

The Census records that I have found that have Janet living with her parents (I believe they are her parents because of her age listed and that of the information found in her obit)

Niles, NY: Moravia PO 1860
Abraham age 40, Hannah age 38, Jeanette age 13, and Alice age 12.

Niles, NY 1855
Abram age 33, Hannah age 32, Jenett age 8, Alice age 6, Francis(?) A
age 3, and John J age 6 mos. There is also a servant by the name of William Hall living in the home.

Niles, NY 1850 (Next to Cornelius Bodine)
Abram age 29, Hanah age 28, Jenette age 4, Alice age 2, and Laura age 1

Janet's obit appeared in the Auburn, NY paper Sept 7, 1928 and is transcribed as follows:
Mrs Janet Bodine DeVoe, widow of Adelbert DeVoe, died last evening following an illness of several years. She was 83 years of age. Mrs. DeVoe was born in Niles, but had lived in Owasco for many years.

She is survived by three sons, Chester A and Dorr of Auburn, and Charles DeVoe of Canoga; three daughters, Mrs Burt Shorkey, Mrs Cecil N Pearce of Syracuse, and Mrs William Marquart of Auburn; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Tallman-Walker Undertaking Establishment, 47 Clark St at 3:30 Sunday afternoon. Rev M J Remejo, Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church at Owasco will officiate. Internment will be in Owasco Rural Cemetery.

I have no furthur information on Janet, other than her parents might be Abraham and Hannah of Niles. I have found some references to numerous Abrahams, and a few Hannahs in wills and such, but cannot connect for sure.

I did find a mention of her and Adelbert in John M Bodine's legal action against Hannah Matoon and numerous amounts of other people in 1897, but I did not find Janet mentioned in Catherine's will (who died Nov 17, 1896), so I have no idea how she would be related, nor is there mention of relation in the summons she is listed in.

If anyone out there can help, please reply as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance
Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong [jess.t.armstrong at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008
Subject: Re: BODINE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

Thank you for your reply. I have visited your page several times looking for a connection and cannot find one. I do think that John M is Abraham's father, but after looking at your page, the locations and dates do not seem right. My Abraham was born about 1820 and married Hannah UNK who was later committed to the Willard State Hospital by her son-in-law Adelbert DeVoe in/around 1895. She later died in 1896 in Ovid at the Willard Hospital.

I have looked at wills that I have found in Auburn, there are many Cornelius', but the only one I have found that mentions an Abraham, grandson, son of John M and Sarah is the one you are talking about, will dated 1821, probated Feb 6, 1822. However, there are many Abrahams that I have found in the area, so I cannot be sure this is the one I am looking for.

In that will, Abraham would have been about 2, and it lists that one of his parents are deceased (I can't remember which one and I didn't write it down...) Whom would he have lived with?

Anyhow, I do not have all of my resources available to me at the moment so I cannot tell you more of what I have found.

All I know is that they are from Niles, NY and they might have moved to Owasco, NY after the marraige of Janet to Adelbert DeVoe.

Have a good one,
Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong [jess.t.armstrong at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008
Subject: Thanks!

Thank you for adding my line, as far as you've got it. I did find some new information at the Records office: Surrogate's records. I don't have all my papers with me, but I do have a notebook with some notes...

Abraham Bodine d Oct 7, 1851, Niles
to my youngest son: Cornelius... (I really couldn't read the rest...)
Other sons and daughters are: Sally, Polly, Martina, John Bernard (John B!), and Thomas.
He left no widow.

John B Bodine d Niles March 21, 1859, no widow, no will
Abram Bodine, Sally Ann Brokaw, Olive O. Bodine, Harriet F Covert (Wife of William E)

In 1829, Gilbert B Bodine petitioned the court for Hannah (17), Henry (15), and David (11) to live with Garett Pearsol in Sempronious (Gilbert was their brother).
Abraham Bodine Junior (who was ??? years old at his last birthday in June) went to live with John B (granted guardianship upon Sarah's death). I'm not really sure why this took so long. I'm gonna have to go look at this again, it was in the same file as Gilbert's petition.

I found this is the Historian's office: Olive Ordell Bodine, d Niles June 12 age abt 21. Auburn Daily Advertiser June 16, 1860.

What is also interesting, if you look at the history of the Deveaux/DeVoe family, they too followed the DRC church up from NYC... Elijah DeVoe, the one that married Elizabeth Gonzales, went up to Ulster Co, wrote his dad, Thomas, and Thomas followed... Elijah and Benjamin (Benjamin is my direct ancestor) ended up in Owasco... see my update at mutantslug.com/armstrong/Devoe

Hope this helps a bit. Thanks again,

Jessica


From: Jessica Armstrong [jess.t.armstrong at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008
Subject: Also, to add

If you are interested in adding Janet (dau of Jahn B and Hannah)'s marriage information: She married Adelbert DeVoe sometime before 1873:

1880 Owasco, visitation # 194

Adelbert Devoe age 23, Janet is 32, and their oldest listed son Charles is 7. They also have Arthur who is 4, Alice who is 2, and should have Dorr who would be an infant...unless Janet was pregnant at the time (or would be shortly thereafter!) the census was taken...There is a discrepancy regarding Dorr's d.o.b.

Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Subject: Re: Also, to add

I have no doubt that Janette on Abraham and Harriet's census of 1850 Niles is the mother of my Dorr, et al.

I went to the Niles Town Hall and looked at what records they had for the time period everyone was living there, with the exception of 1850+, the clerk couldn't find a book and thinks the historian has it...

Alice, Janet's sister, was born Feb 12, 1848. Laura Ann, her other sister, was born Sept 14, 1849. John C, the son of Cornelius and Delilah, was born Sept 15, 1849.

I don't know the relation of the following, but I wrote them down anyway so I can share them with you:
Ann Bodine d April 13, 1849 at age 22. She was a domestic, married, and the cause was "consumption". Margaret Bodine d Feb 6, 1849 at the age of 48. She was also a domestic, married, and her cause of death of "inflammation of the [lungs]". (I couldn't really read the last word, but my friend said it looked like "lungs."

In 1904, the land owners who would have sent their kids to School #1 were Miss Elizabeth Bodine, Abram M Bodine (Lot 11), and for School #10 it was D [G/J] Bodine who lived on lot 34.

Adelbert DeVoe's house was sold to Cora Bodine in 1921, who later sold it to Clarence and Florence Brokaw in 1928. Adelbert originally bought it from S. Baker btwn 1875 and 1880. (21 School St, Owasco).

Also, I was looking at an 1875 map of Niles and found A. Bodine who lived on what is now Rockefeller between Cross and Arnold on the lake side of the road. Also, his neighbor was W. Bodine. On the corner of what is now Valentine and Cross lived Peter Bodine.

Sometime around May 1847, Cornelius gave his son Peter a bunch of land. I wasn't really feeling well and didn't look through the deed books, but they transferred a bunch of land.

Dewitt Brinkerhoff and others sold their land to John B Bodine in 1847, lot #15 of Niles, next to Jacob Selover. I looked at a 1904 map and found that lot to have Harter Rd to the North, Grange Hall to the sound, Valentine Rd to the west, and Gahwler to the East, with Warne Rd running down the middle.

And...1850 Niles has lots of Bodines all in one vicinity. I don't have the transcription with me, so I'll send that to you the next time if you don't already have them. The names are (I did write that down in the notebook I have with me) Peter C, Cornelius C, Cornelius, Abraham, and [my] Abram lived down the road a bit.

Have a good one,

Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Subject: Re: Also, to add - a comment

I've been looking for the proof that Abraham and Hannah are Janet's parents (other than the circumstantial), the only thing I can offer is the newspaper article stating that "Hannah's son, Adelbert DeVoe" is the one who filled out the commitment papers to have her sent to Willard in Ovid. I found it on fultonhistory.com/...

As for Adelbert, he was born Sept 1853. Thomas DeVoe's book (Genealogy of the DeVeaux Family...) has his father as Elijah DeVoe and Samantha Covert, which I confirmed on his death record I found in Owasco, NY. His death date is October 31, 1921 in Owasco, at his home on School St. He and Janet had 5 children that I know of (see my page about the confusion): Dorr Burr, Chester Adelbert, Charles, Jennie, and Alice. In Janet's obit, there are three daughters listed, but I have not found anything in regards to census records and such for the third daughter. I did look up in the Auburn Directory under William Marquart and it's got his wife's name listed as "Carrie."

Janet's father died intestate, and I have not found one for the mother Hannah. I did find a will for a Hannah Bodine, but her will was probated in 1893, three years before [my] Hannah died. Like I said, I'm going to have to go back to the records office and do some more searching now that names are making sense in the tree.

Also, I was able to get a look at the 1910 census for Owasco and found that Adelbert was 57, Janet was 63, and Chester was 21. Adelbert and Janet had been married 34 years, and 5 out of 7 children were still alive. I am even more confused now...I have updated my DeVoe page, but haven't uploaded it yet...

...

Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Subject: Re: Also, to add - a comment

I was just about to send you another message before I headed off for the day...

The date of birth for Adelbert does vary between censi...but for sure, he was born in 1853, it's on his death record from Owasco. In Thomas' book he's listed as Elijah, son of Elijah (DaVar/Dever messageboard,...someone posted a bunch of pages).

1870 Moravia: Janett Bodine age 22, Housekeeper for Evert C Decker. She has a daughter named Carrie who is 1.

Also, for John B, 1850 Niles, he's 58. I'm not sure if I sent that to you before or not.

I'm working on compiling my DeVoes and Bodines still to my page. I'll send you the link when I've got it updated again.

Also, I found Abram, Hannah, and William living in Skaneateles in 1870. I'm printing the record out as I type this.

Oh, and in order to view the commitment papers for Hannah, the guy at Records Retention said I would have to petition the commissioner of health and the court...would it be worth it, you know?

Gotta run,

Jessica

From: Jessica Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Subject: Re: Abraham Bodine, died Oct. 7, 1851

The commitment papers for Hannah are sealed,... I have to petition the Supreme Court to unseal them for me...

...

I looked up some Bodines and DeVoes in the 1892 census

...

Owasco
Carrie Bodine age 23, domestic for Isaac Harubeck (?) age 66
Adelbert DeVoe age 40, Janet 44, Charles 19, Arthur 17, Alice 16, Dorr 11, George 9, Jennie 6, Chester 4.
This accounts for all 7 children (but not Carrie...). Arthur and George died young because They're not found elsewhere...

Oh, I found the 1900 census where they ask how many years been married:
1900: Adelbert says 28, Janet says 20...ealiest m date would be 1872
1910, both say 34... this puts marriage around 1876 ...

I wonder why Janet doesn't count Carrie as one of her children in future census? ..

...

Jessica

Ronny Bodine looked up the 1900 Census and wrote, "I did find the family in 1900, showing Adelbert saying he was married 28 years and his wife married 20 years. She had borne 7 children, but the oldest living with them was born Oct 1876 and the next one in May 1886. So, if Janet's no. of years of married was just miswritten, then they must have married in 1871-2."