Notes for: Lewis Bodine
There is a Lewis Bodine who enlisted for the Union on August 16, 1862 in Pennsylvania. He was a second lieutenant. Chamber's book "Early Germans of New Jersey" says that Gilbert, Lewis' father, left one child and "has descendants in Illinois and Wisconsin" (p. 269). FamilySearch.com lists a Lewis Bodine born to Isaac and Mary Drake Bodine about 1819, "of Readington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey."
The Watkins Democrat of January 7, 1903 says this:
A Pioneer of Seneca County
Lewis Bodine, who died in the town of Ovid, in Decemeber, 1903, was born in 1820 on the farm where his death occurred. He was the only son of Isaac Bodine, the sixth son of Cornelius Bodine, a soldier of the Revolution, who came to Ovid and took up a military claim in 1801, and was the ancestor of the Bodine family in Seneca County. Lewis Bodine's mother was a daughter of Capt. Richard Drake. She died during his infancy and he was cared for by an aunt, Sarah Ann Drake. Mr. Bodine was twice married, his first wife, Ann Van Doren, having become the mother of his three children.
Another obituary, even longer, is found in The Gazette and Independent, Ovid, N.Y., from (maybe) December 30, 1903 on one of the inside pages:
The death of Lewis Bodine on the 18th of December, removes one of the best known of the older residents of the town of Ovid. Lewis Bodine was born in 1820 on the farm where he died. He was the only son of Isaac Bodine, sixth son of Cornelius Bodine, revolutionary soldier, who came to Ovid and took up a military claim in 1801, and who was the ancestor of the Bodine family in Seneca county. Lewis Bodine's mother was a daughter of Captain Richard Drake, who settled on the farm which afterward passed to Isaac and Lewis Bodine. Richard Drake's wife, Lewis Bodine's grandmother, was a sister of Rev. Abram Messler, third pastor of the Reformed church of Lodi, 1825-8. The mother of Lewis Bodine died while he was an infant, and he was cared for by an aunt, Sarah Ann Drake, during infancy. Lewis Bodine passed nearly his whole life on the farm where he was born, with the exception of five years, 1867-1872, spent in the west, and a brief period during which he lived on the neighboring farm belonging to Abram VanDoren. A daughter of Abram VanDoren, Ann VanDoren, became Mr. Bodine's wife October 27, 1842, and was the mother of his three children, Darwin C , who died in 1880; Louise Davenport, who died in 1879, and Jennie Bissell, who died in 1889. Mr. Bodine thus outlived by some years all of his children. After the death of his first wife he married Miss Martha Twedy of Washington, D. C , in 1891, who survives him. Six grandchildren are also living: Lewis T. Bodine, Ira Bodine and Charles D. Bodine; Nina Davenport Given, Harlena Bissell Hyrouamus and Louise Bissell. Mr. Bodine was a man who was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was an active member of the Ovid Center Grange. For many years he was an honored member of the Reformed church of Lodi, in which he successively filled the offices of deacon and elder. Altho in his 84th year he remained in good health up until the day of his sudden death, and was actively engaged in the management of his farm and other interests. His rectitude of character and cheerful and kindly disposition will render him greatly missed from the neighborhood and church.
C. F. P.
Here is a message which might concern this Lewis Bodine:
From: Dennis E. [buff_mich at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Subject: Bodine
Helloo, Happy Holdiays, i'm not related, cept / interesting, yesterday looked up my 3rd-great-grand-fahter John BROOKS, Ovid, Seneca County, N.Y. a previous household was Isaac BODINE, 1800 US Census
Previously, for years i said, as i knew, i had a Lewis Bodine, that married one of John BROOKS, daughters. that is the only thing i knew about Lewis.
& have know for years > just down the street from me, was a BODINE family James T & Jackie Bodine, Ossington Ave, FLint, Michigna 48507 so finally in November 2009 , i decided to look up James Obituary in "The Flint Journal", Page A -10 Thursday 20 Nov 2003 gave me his parents names, & i kept step 'g it back to (4)>Phillips, cept, Of Ovid, Seneca Co. NY
so your web site showed me what My Ancestor's town looked like, Thanks, i plan give'g their info , hope they don't have it, she stated she didn't know any of it nor his nationality, French, // i only have one Direct ancestor that is French ( DeLaGrange ) i don't know for sure nationality of BROOKS, maybe English or Dutch. John's father was George.
Thanks, Dennis ELSTON, FLint, Genesee County, Michigan. 48507.
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1850-1860, Lewis and Lydia Bodine lived in Ovid, Seneca County, in 1870 in Peotone, Will County, Illinois and in 1880, Lewis and Lydia Bodine lived in the home of Lydia's 85-year-old father, Abram Van Doren in Ovid, Seneca County. In 1900, Lewis and Martha Bodine lived in Ovid, Seneca County where, at age 80, he reported he was a retired farmer. Lewis and Ann Bodine were buried in Union Cemetery, Ovid, Seneca County. Ann was the daughter of Abraham and Jane (Van Nest) Van Doren.
Obituary, Geneva Daily Times (Geneva, N.Y.) of 19 Dec 1903.
Lewis Bodine, aged 85 years, died at his home this morning at three o'clock. Mr. Bodine has been a lifelong resident of Ovid and was prominently identified with public and religious life. Deceased attended to his farm duties as usual and retired feeling as well as usual and awoke about two o'clock troubled with a pain around his heart. Before his wife could summon help he fell unconscious and died soon afterward. He is survived by his wife and two children, who reside in the west.
From State of Missouri Certificate of Death for Martha J. Bodine, born in Memphis, Tenn., daughter of John Tweedy & Mary Lewis, widow of Lewis Bodine, died 4 March 1928 aged "about 67" in St. Louis of pneumonia, buried Bellefontaine Cemetery. Informant was Thos. H. Bludell.