Notes for: Theodore Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

On 18 May 1863, Theodore Bodine, aged 18, enlisted at Waterloo, New York and was mustered in as a Private on 23 June 1863 into Battery A, 11th Artillery which, on 25 July 1863 became Battery I, New York 4th Heavy Artillery Regiment (USA). He was discharged for disability 14 Aug 1865 at Fort Richardson, Virginia. On 2 Sept 1865, he applied for an invalid pension which was not granted. In June 1870, Theodore and Lucinda Bodine and their 5-month old daughter Maud lived in Tyre, Seneca County, next door to his parents. Theodore Bodine died 5 Oct 1875 which date is recorded on his Civil War Veteran's Pension Index Card, but the place was not stated. In June 1880, Lucinda Bodine, now widowed, lived with her 10-year old daughter Maud in the home of her mother, Eliza McCurdy, in Waterloo, Seneca County. On 23 Sept 1890, Lucinda Bodine filed for a widow's pension which was granted under certificate no. 318214. In June 1900, Lucinda Bodine apparently resumed her maiden name as Lucinda McCurdy and was living in the home of her 89-year old mother, Eliza McCurdy, along with her daughter and son-in-law, Maud and William Laing. In April 1910, Lucinda Bodine (again) lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Maud and William Laing in Waterloo.

The Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) of 18 Nov 1875.
At Junius, N.Y., recently, a farmer named Theodore Bodine met a terrible death. He was feeding a threshing-machine with loose oats. In some manner, a coil of fence wire had become mixed with the oats and was thrown into the machine, unseen, by the farmer. One end of the wire instantly fastened around the cylinder of the thresher, and the other end caught around Mr. Bodine's neck and drew him up to the machine. The aperture being too small to permit the engine body passing in, the head was literally torn from it and passed through. It was not until the bloody head came out at the other end that the fate of the farmer was discovered. The men who were attending to that part of the machine stopped the horses and, going back, found the headless trunk of Mr. Bodine lying upon the barn floor.