Notes for: Jesse Fowler Bodine
This is the Jesse Bodine in the 1880 Census of Salem County, New Jersey (v. 20, ed. 147, sh. 26, ln. 37). He was 37, Eliza 34, Frank 12, Harry 9, Charles 5, and Albert 5. His occupation was a painter.
There is quite a bit of personal history about him on p. 1369 of Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, v. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910. That is by Francis Bazley Lee.
From Ronny Bodine:
The marriage of Jesse Bodine of Philadelphia to Eliza L. Barnart of Salem, New Jersey was recorded in the records of the Salem Methodist Church. Jesse Bodine was working as an apprentice painter in Salem in 1860. During the Civil War he served in the Home Guard of Salem and in Company B, 192nd Pennsylvania Regiment. Jesse was engaged in the trade of paper hanging and painting. He was a prohibitionist, Baptist deacon and licensed preacher, member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, American Mechanics and Sons of Temperance. In 1880, the family was living in Salem and in 1889 he moved his family to Philadelphia, where he was residing in May 1904 when he corresponded with Mary Elizabeth Sinnott and was still a resident of Philadelphia in 1910 when he and his wife and daughter, Elizabeth, were living with his cousin Elizabeth Mills. George was still employed as a house painter. Elizabeth Bodine reported she had borne 6 children, of who 5 were then living. In 1920, Elizabeth Mills was living alone and it appears that in the intervening 10 years George and Elizabeth Bodine had died. Elizabeth (Barnart) Bodine was the daughter of William and Eliza L. Barnart. See Francis Bazley Lee, "Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey," New York: 1910, IV: 1369-1370.
Death notice, the Philadelphia Inquirer of 19 March 1913.
BODINE---18th instant at Pennsgrove, N.J., JESSIE F. BODINE. Relatives and friends invited to funeral, Fri., 2 P.M. Services at First Baptist, Pennsgrove, N.J. Train leaves Market at ferry at 11 A.M.
From State of Pennsylvania Certificate of Death for Mrs. Eliza Bodine: born 13 Jan 1845 in NJ, died 25 Oct 1919 in Philadelphia, daughter of Wm. Barnart, and buried in Penns Grove Cemetery.