Ronny Bodine sent me the following picture:
Harry M. Bodine
The following info was sent to me by Dottie Keegan (djk21889 at sbcglobal.net):
Notes for HARRY M. BODINE:
ENSUS: 1880 Otto, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania; Roll: T9_1154; Family History Film: 1255154; Page: 431C; Enumeration District: 96; Image: 0577.
John D. BODINE Head of household Age: 33 Estimated birth year: 1847 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Occupation: Telegraph Operator Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: PA Mother's birthplace: PA
Cordelia M. BODINE Age: 33 Estimated birth year: 1847 Birthplace: N Y Occupation: Keeping House Relation: Wife Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Father's birthplace: N Y Mother's birthplace: NY
- Laforest J. BODINE Age: 11 Estimated birth year: 1869 Birthplace: N Y Occupation: At Home Relation: Son Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: PA Mother's birthplace: NY
- Lewis M. BODINE Age: 9 Estimated birth year: 1871 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Relation: Son Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: PA Mother's birthplace: NY
- Richie O. BODINE Age: 7 Estimated birth year: 1873 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Relation: Son Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: PA Mother's birthplace: NY
- Harry M. BODINE Age: 5 Estimated birth year: 1875 Birthplace: N Y Relation: Son Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: PA Mother's birthplace: NY
From Ronny Bodine:
Private Harry Bodine was serving with Company C, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry at the time of his death. From his military records: When the hospital ship Relief sailed from Ponce, Private Bodine, age 22, intended coming to the United States as a passenger. He was in Ponce hospital, and the night before the Relief sailed, he informed Private James Crawford that he was to be one of the sick men to be brought home. Crawford was also picked out as a passenger. He went to the ship, expecting to find Bodine there, but the latter did not arrive and the Relief sailed without him. It seems that he was reported by the ship's officers, as being on board, but never taken from Ponce hospital. He died of typhoid malaria. Private Bodine was in the thickest of the fighting at Coamo, Puerto Rico, and was one of the first soldiers to enter the city after victory had been won. He saw two Spanish flags flying over the barracks of the Spaniards and pulled them down. The trophies were subsequently turned over to Colonel Hulings and a short time afterwards were brought to Washington by Colonel Biddle and Captain Harry Alvan Hall and presented to the president. Colonel Hulings offered Private Bodine a furlough after the battle, but the patriotic young man refused it, saying that he preferred to stay with his company until the close of the war. A few days later he was siezed with typhoid fever.