Notes for: Elizabeth Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriage Records:
Major Rogers of Bucks Co., Pa. AND Elizabeth Bodine of Amwell, NJ were married 18 Nov 1837 by J. W. Rigg at my home in this township.
Major and Elizabeth Rogers lived 1850 in Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County and 1860 in Elkhorn, Carroll County, Illinois. In 1870, Major Rogers lived with his son Doctor in Wysox, Carroll County while his wife Elizabeth lived alone in Elkhorn Grove Township, Carroll County. In 1880, Elizabeth Rogers, aged 64 and now widowed, lived with her son Charles and his family in Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin.
Obituary, The Rockford Daily Gazette (Rockford, Ill.) of 21 Oct 1879.
We clip the following concerning the death of Major Rogers, from the Ogle County Press: "Last Monday, Major Rogers died at Rockford, after an illness of nearly three years, during which he was a great sufferer. Mr. Rogers was born in the town of Brantford, New Haven County, Connecticut, April 7, 1817, and was therefore little more than 62 years and 6 months old at the time of his death. In early life he removed to Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and afterwards to Bucks County in the same State, where he was married in 1838, to Elizabeth Bodine , of Hunterdon County, N.J. In 1856, he removed to Elhorn Grove, Carroll County, where he purchased the farm formerly owned by Austin Stalford, and on which he resided until his last illness caused his temporary removal to Rockford, where he died on Monday, October 13."
From Hunterdon County, NJ Orphans' Court Minutes, 19: 206, 10 May 1897.
Final acount submitted on the estate of Benjamin Bodine by Cornelius Bodine notes Elizabeth Rogers, one of the heirs, died 6 June 1896.
Obituary, local newspaper, June 1896.
ELIZABETH (BODINE) ROGERS - At her home in Hitt, Ill., Saturday, June 6, 1896, Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers, at the age of eighty years and twenty-six days. Elizabeth Bodine was born May 10, 1816 in the state of New Jersey. She was married to Major Rogers November 18, 1837. They moved to Carroll County, Illinois in 1856, where she resided until her death, June 6, 1896. She was the mother of ten children, five boys and five girls; five survive her and five preceded her to the grave. She was converted at the age of twenty-eight years and joined the Presbyterian church at Huntington, N. J. On her seventy-fifth birthday she was baptized and received in the Baptist church at Milledgeville,Il. She lived a consistent, trustful christian life, and died rejoicing that she was going home to be at rest, and enjoy the blessedness her Savior had gone to prepare for her. Thus a truly good woman has left us, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. Loving children and kind neighbors did all they could to cause her last days to be ones of comfort. She was a good and loving mother; as a friend and neighbor, sincere and obliging. Death came not as a thief in the night, as she was only waiting for the summons, "Come ___higher." Two of her daughters, one from Byron and the other from Morrison, were with her before she died, one daughter in Nebraska could not be present, but her husband came a few days before she died. She had one son in Washington who could not be present; the son Charles arrived from Chicago, Sunday afternoon, just in time for the funeral services, which were held at the Union church, Rev. J. E. Noftsinger, her pastor, conducting the service. The interment took place in the Union cemetery.
Burials in Union Cemetery, Milledgeville, Carroll County, Illinois.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 61824868 & 61824806)
MAJOR ROGERS [birth date illegible] Died Oct 13, 1879
ELIZABETH ROGERS Born May 10, 1816 Died June 6, 1896