Notes for: Grayce V. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine (March 17, 2018):
From New York Marriage Records:
Axel G. Cask AND Grayce V. (Bodine) McConville were married 15 Aug 1920 in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County.
John McConnell was buried in Sackett's Harbor Cemetery, Hounsfield Township. In 1920, Grace McConville, age 25, was widowed and living with her 3-year old son, John B. with her parents in Sackett's Harbor, Hounsfield Township, Jefferson County. In 1930, she was now married to Axel G. Cask with whom she was living in Hounsfield Township. Axel was serving in the U.S. Army. Their household included Grace's 12-year old son, John McConville, her mother, Katherine Bodine, and their daughter Vivian Cask. Axel G. Cask retired as a U.S. Air Force Major on 29 Feb 1948.
Obituary, Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, N.Y.) of 12 April 1971.
Axel G. Cask, about 73, of Pasadena, Calif., a retired Army colonel who was once on duty at Madison Barracks, Sackets Harbor, died Saturday night at his home in Pasadena after an illness of several months. He was a sergeant at Madison Barracks in August, 1920, when he married Mrs. Grayce Bodine McConville of Sackets Harbor, widow of John A. McConville, in that village. She survives, together with a daughter, Mrs. John (Vivienne) McCartan, Lacanada, Calif., three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be in California Tuesday. He served 14 months in France with the Fifth Division, U.S. Regulars, during World War I, and fought in the Argonne Forest campaign. Earlier, he was with General John J. Pershing's punitive expedition in Mexico with the 17th U.S. Infantry.
Children of Grace Bodine and John McConville: John B(odine?) (1917).
Children of Grace Bodine and Axel Cask: Vivienne (2 April 1920).