Notes for: Marjorie Bodine
The following came from http://www.kunsman-eichlin.net/:
The Old Bodine Lumber Company
The Old Bodine Lumber Company was first established in the 1770's. It was then called The Century Flour Mill. It was established by N.J. Deputy Quaker Master Moore Furman, for army purposes. During the Revolutionary War George Washington kept his ammunition in the old mill. This building is the most important historic place to me because my Great-Great-Grandfather Mercer Bodine bought the mill in the early 1900's, almost 100 years ago! He started a business called The Bodine Lumber Company. They sold feed, lumber, and later hardware. This means a lot to me because he worked hard to make a successful business for his family. Mercer's daughter, Marjorie, helped him in the family business with book work, when she was about my age, 10 years old.
My Great- Grandfather Clifford Eichlin worked at the mill as a young man, and later married Marjorie. After Mercer's death they ran the mill. Then in the 1950's my grandfather, Robert Bodine Eichlin helped to run the family mill, until the building was sold in 1982.
I am proud to be a decendant of the Bodine family and have the old mill as part of my family history!
Maggie
Spring, 1999
Above text taken from a website - http://www.ftschool.org/fourth/historic.franklintwp/bodine.lumber.html and was written by a Maggie, descendant of Clifford Eichlin.
From Ronny Bodine:
From Plainfield (NJ) Courier-News of 29 Oct 1928:
Miss Marjorie E. Bodine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mercer Bodine of Pittstown, and W. Clifford Eichlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eichlin, Plainfield, were married at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Frenchtown Methodist Church by the Rev. Thomas Walker.
Obituary, Sunday Times Advertiser (Trenton, N.J.) of 20 Sept 1970.
PITTSTOWN--W. Clifford Eichlin, 64, of Pittstown, died Friday in the Hunterdon Medical Center. He was the proprietor of the Bodine Lumber Co. in Pittstown and was the former mayor of Franklin Township, Hunterdon County. He was a lifelong resident of the area and has served three terms on the township committee. He was a member and had formerly served on the Official Board of the Quakertown Methodist Church. He was a member of Stewart Lodge No. 34 F&AM Clinton, a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason of the Valley of Trenton, a member of the Crescent Temple Shrine of Trenton, the West Jersey Shrine Club of Philipsburg, the Quakertown Fire Co., the Quakertown Recreation Club and was treasurer of the Locust Grove Cemetery Association of Quakertown. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Bodine Eichlin; two sons, Richard of Pittstown and Robert of Quakertown; one brother, Jesse Eichlin of Quakertown; two sisters, Mrs. Wilhelmina Hobbie of Pittstown and Mrs. Hazel Cleaves of Clinton and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held today at 2 o'clock from the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, Main Street, Flemington. The Rev. Vance Davis, pastor of the Quakertown Methodist Church, will officiate with interment in Locust Grove Cemetery, Quakertown. Contributions may be made to the Hunterdon County chapter of the American Cancer Society in Flemington.
Obituary, The Times (Trenton, N.J.) of 8 Jan 1986.
PITTSTOWN--Marjorie B. Eichlin, 78, died Monday in the Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington. Mrs. Eichlin was born in Pittstown and was a lifelong resident. She owned the Bodine Lumber Company of Pittstown until selling the business in 1981. She was a member of the Quakertown United methodist Church, and a former treasurer of the Ladies Auxilary of the Quakertown Fire Company. She was also a member of Stuart Chapter No. 166, Order of the Eastern Star of Clinton. Her husband, Clifford Eichlin died in 1970. She is survived by two sons, Richard and Robert Eichlin, both of Pittstown; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main St., Flemington. Burial will be in Locust Grove Cemetery, Quakertown. Friends may call Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Quakertown Fire Company or the Quakertown United Methodist Church.
Children: Richard L. (26 Oct 1931-16 Feb 2008), Robert Bodine (21 Sept 1933-21 March 2006)