Elizabeth Bodine McKay and daughter, 1880
Original in New York University Library
Courtesy of Christie Anderberg, Sanctuary Manager
Ahhochee Hill Sanctuary, Brooksville, Florida
Zach T. McKay and Elizabeth Bodine McKay
(seated, on their 50th wedding anniversary)
Raymond Robins, their “adopted foster” son,
with Margaret Dreier Robins (standing)
Original in New York University Library
Courtesy of Christie Anderberg, Sanctuary Manager
Ahhochee Hill Sanctuary, Brooksville, Florida
From: Christie Anderberg [anderbergc at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007
Subject: Bodine research
Hello. I live in Brooksville Florida on a property that was once known as Bodine Grove.
...
Elizabeth Bodine Mckay moved with her husband Zachary McKay to Florida in 1883. Also
with their baby, Mary Bodine McKay. (James M and daughter Eliz B McKay both bought pieces
of land here that made up orange groves.)
There were heavy citrus losses in early 1890's, esp 1892. Would bet they moved back to KY full time by
early 1900. Zachary died in 1929, Elizabeth in 1941, both in Jefferson Cty, KY.
...
thanks for your work provided on line.
Christie
From Ronny Bodine:
From Clark County, Indiana Marriage Records:
Zachariah T. McKay AND Lizzie C. Bodine were issued a marriage license on 25 Nov 1878 in Jeffersonville. The license includes a handwritten note "The above parties were on the above date married in Louisville, Ky." The date was November 1878 with out a day.
In 1880, Z. P. and Lizzie McKay lived with Lizzie's parents in Louisville, Jefferson County.
Obituary, The Evening Independent of 16 Sept 1941.
Brooksville, Sept. 16---Word has been received here of the death, Sept. 4, in Louisville, Ky., of Mrs. Zack T. McKay, first cousin and foster mother of Col. Raymond Robins. Mrs. McKay was 84 and for many years made an annual spring visit at Chinsegut Hill sanctuary with Colonel and Mrs. Robins and at the Tampa home of another cousin, the late Mrs. Sam Fulton. Mrs. McKay was born n a Blue Grass farm and was reared in Louisville. Her father was Dr. James Morrison Bodine, dean of the medical department of the University of Louisville for 42 years, one-time president of the American Medical association, and member of the Pendennis club, famous group of southern leaders which included "Marse" Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Gen. John B. Castleman, noted Confederate general and others. In 1883, Mr. and Mrs. McKay moved to Bodine grove, in Hernando county, where they developed a 100 acres of citrus fruit belonging to Dr. Bodine. They lived there until the big freeze of 1894-'95, and with them for seven years lived Colonel Robins. Fielder Harris, colored, who in later years was a planter and a moving spirit in the development of Chinsegut Hill sanctuary, was their servant, looking after the grove and the attractive old home, now "gone with the wind." Mr. McKay became a member of Hernando county board of commissioners and a trustee of Rock Hill school, where for one year Colonel Robins received the only formal schooling of his life until he entered college and was taught by the late W. A. Fulton, Brooksville. Burial was in the famous old Cave Hill cemetery at Louisville. She was an active member of Christ church, noted Episcopal cathedral in Louisville. Mrs. McKay's daughter, Mrs. Mary Bodine Hogan and two granddaughters, flew from Pasadena. A typical anecdote concerning Mrs. McKay was the fact that during the terrible flood of the Ohio river a number of years ago, she refused to leave her apartment although water covered the second story of the building. She said she trusted God and Kentucky and stayed put throughout the inundation. But she gave up her bed to flood refugees.
Children: Mary (1880).