There has been some speculation that the first wife of James Bodine was named Mary. A Mary Bodine appears only one time and that is on the 1791 tax list for Loudoun County. There is no evidence to connect her to James Bodine. She was certainly not his widow as he lived on for many years and is unlikely to have been abandoned by her when he left. She would have lived with her sons and not been taxed separately.
In a later message, Ronny clarified this last paragraph with the following:
I made a slight misstatement. "She was certainly not his widow as he lived on for many years and is unlikely to have been abandoned by her when he left. She would have lived with her sons and not been taxed separately." Meaning to say she was not his widow because James Bodine moved to Sevier County, TN, remarried and lived for many more years. Since James Bodine owned no land in Loudoun County then any widow he may have left behind would not have been taxed for it and none of the tax lists for his sons show an extra older lady living with them, so she was not their mother who stayed behind while her husband went out scouting for a new home. The identity of this Mary Bodine remains unexplained and she may belong to the family of Cornelius Bodine who also lived in Loudoun County and was very, very distantly related to James Bodine.
***End of info from Ronny Bodine.