Notes for: Elsie (or Alice) Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
1850 (30 July) Lebanon Twp., Hunterdon County: Matthias TRIMMER 65 NJ farmer, Elsey 59 NJ, Elsey T. 24 NJ, Samuel 19 NJ, Mary NEIGHBOR 12 NJ; all TRIMMER: John 25 NJ, Catharine 25 NJ, Casper 4 NJ, Peter 3 NJ, Margaret 11/12 NJ.
1860 (1 June) Lebanon Twp., Hunterdon County: Elsy TRIMMER 69 NJ widow.
From New Jersey Death Records:
Elca Trimmer, daughter of Gilbert and Catharine Bodine, died 5 Jan 1862 in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, age 71. She was born in Lebanon and was single (=widowed).
Burials in Lower Valley Presbyterian Church, near Long Valley, New Jersey.
In memory of MATTHIAS TRIMER Died Aug. 31, 1831.
In memory of ELSIE the wife of Matthias Trimmer Born Nov. 9, 1791 Died Jan. 5, 1862.
From: Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen. The early Germans of New Jersey: their history, churches, and genealogies. German Valley, N.J. : T.F. Chambers, 1895., p. 536-537.
Matthias, b. 1785, d. Aug. 31, 1851 at 66, m. Elsie Bodine, b. Nov. 9, 1791 ; had ch.: 1 Gilbert, b. Sept. 8, 1810; 2. Jacob M., b. Feb. 11, 1812; 3. Mary A., b. Aug. 8, 1814; 4. Isaiah, b. Dec. 11, 1816; 5. Matthias, b. Nov. 9, 1819; 6. Anthony, b. Feb. 16, 1822; 7. Cath. Caroline, b. May 25, 1825; 8. Elsie, b. Mar. 15, 1828; 9. Eliza Ann, b. Jan. 13, 1830; 10. Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1830.