Notes for: Maurice (Morris) Lynch Bodine
In the 1900 Census of Kremlin, Garfield County, Oklahoma, take June 6, 1900, he was living with his brother, James. It said: b. Mar 1869, 31, married 8 years, b. IN, father OH, mother New Hampshire. He was a preacher. No wife was with him. There is a marriage for a Maurice L. Bodine to a Mrs. Edith L. Bodine in Richland Co., IL on May 16, 1910.
From Ronny Bodine:
1st marriage--1888--EDITH AUGUSTA BAIRD.
1900 Kremlin, Garfield Co., OK Terr: Morris L. BODINE March 1869 IN preacher, in household of his brother James D. Bodine, other siblings and father Wesley Bodine. He is married for 8 years, but no wife is listed.
1900 Albion, Edwards Co., IL: Edith BODINE Jan 1869 IL, Mabel June 1889 KS dau, Carroll April 1891 KS son, Lilah April 1894 KS dau. Edith is married 12 years and has borne 3 children, all now living.
In April 1910, Morris and Edith Bodine lived with their son-in-law and daughter, John and Mable Legg, in Bellmont Township, Wabash County, Illinois. The census recorded the age of Morris as 40 and that of Edith as 34, that both were divorced and that Edith had borne 6 children of whom 5 lived.
From Illinois Death Records:
Edith Bodine, divorced, of Chicago, born 3 Jan 1869 in Belmont, Illinois, daughter of Franklin Baird & Delilah Dawson, died 3 Sept 1945 in Chicago, Cook County and was buried in Wunders Cemetery.
2nd marriage--1918--AAFKE TEL.
From Cook County, Illinois Marriage Records:
Maurice L. Bodine, 50 AND Mrs. Effie H. Bouterse, 46, were married 28 July 1918 in Chicago. [Note: Aafke "Effie" was 1st married 1902 in Grand Rapids, MI to Anthony Lamberts Bouterse (1862-1917)]
1920 Butler, Butler Co., IA: Maurice BODINE 51 IN Clergyman. Married, but no wife with him.
From Illinois Death Records:
Effie Tell Bouterse died 20 Jan 1950 in Chicago, Cook County.
3rd marriage--1920--IDA LOUISE GLASSHAGEL.
McKean County, Illinois Marriage Records
Maurice L. Bodine, age 52, son of Wesley Bodine & Arabelle Buell AND Miss Ida L. Glasshagel, age 48, dau. of Fred Glasshagel & Augusta Craker were married 1 Oct 1920. [Note: Her parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Glasshagel and Augusta Mathilde Ottilie Krause. Ida seems to have married Charles Monkemeier as her last husband.]
From Rockford Republic (Rockford, Ill.) of 22 March 1921:
Aurora, Ill., March 22--The Rev. Maurice Bodine, arrested last Monday at Rosston, Okla., where he was conducting revival meetings, admitted in the Aurora jail today that he has been married three times. Warrants for his arrest were issued several weeks ago, when his latest bride, Miss Ida Glasshagel, an Aurora modiste, learned that he had married her illegally. Miss Glasshagel was married to the preacher Sept. 1, 1920, at LaGrange, Ill. Two months later he drove away in her new Ford coupe and failed to return. "I have a new chare in Iowa and will send for you when I get settled, dear," the Rev. M. Bodine told his bride the day he left. When he failed to send for her, Miss Glasshagel investigated and learned that he was divorced fro his wife, Effie, March 17, 1920, in Chicago, making her marriage illegal, under the Illinois law. She started annulment proceedings. Warrants were the issued charging the preacher with the theft of Miss Glasshagel's automobile and violation of the Illinois law. The preacher said today that he met his first wife while conducting a revival meeting at Morganville, Ind., and lived with her 17 years. They were divorced. "I met my second wife, Effie, while we were on the platform at a Billy Sunday revival meeting at Chicago," the Rev. Mr. Bodine said. "She seemed like a good woman but she proved a failure and left me in a month. Then I met Miss Glasshagel at her home in Aurora. She told me one day that she loved me but I told her that all my love was for God. As the days passed, I fell in love with her and we were married. After we were married, she told me I was her dream man. "When the arrested me at Rosston, Okla., last Monday, I was having a successful revival meeting and had three conversations that morning. It was a terrible shock to my congregation. I had planned to send for Ida, but for some reason she did not get my mail. I know that she will see the light." Miss Glasshagel collapsed when she received a fervent note from the preacher begging her to come to the jail/ She sent her sister and after an interview with her, Bodine said he was sure that he would be able to reach a reconciliation with Miss Glasshagel. In the meantime, Chief of Detective A. G. Wirz is checking up on Bodine's life to see if there are other wives he has failed to tell about.
From Rockford Republic (Rockford, Ill.) of 12 Oct 1923:
Aurora, Oct. 12.--(Special)--The marital difficulties of Mrs. Ida Bodine, who married the man of her dreams early in 1921, were brought to a close when a decree granting her a divorce from the Rev. Maurice Bodine was entered in circuit court at Geneva. After the couple were married it developed that the Rev. Mr. Bodine, a traveling interdenominational evangelist, had already taken three wives prior to his marriage to Miss Glasshagel. He was divorced from the second less than a year ago before his marriage to the Aurora woman, it was learned. The Rev. Mr. Bodine came to Aurora to hold evangelistic meetings and while here took rooms at the home of the woman who later became his wife. A few days before he called for the room the woman said that she had a dream in whicha man would call at her home for a room, that she would take him in, and that a marriage to be of great happiness would result. It appears that marriage was the only part of the wonderful dream which materialized, and even the legality of that was questioned for a time when it developed that the evangelist had not waited the year required by the divorce law before taking his new bride. Shortly after the marriage the Rev. Mr. Bodine left Aurora in a machine bought by his bride to take charge of "meetings" in Kansas and Oklahoma. He was returned in the custody of the police when it was discovered that a machine he had turned in as part payment on the machine had been the property of an educational institution in Chicago, and tat he had no right to dispose of it. Suit for an annulment of her marriage was started by Mrs. Bodine, but was later withdrawn. Her divorce was granted on a charge of cruelty.
4th marriage--1925--NORA HECK.
From Saint Louis County, Missouri Marriage Records:
Maurice L. Bodine, of Saint Louis AND Nora Heck, of Saint Louis, were married 7 March 1925 at Clayton, Saint Louis Count,y by A. H. Werremoyer, J.P.
From The Houston (MO) Herald of 14 March 1929:
Circuit Court, March 7. Nora Bodine vs Maurice Bodine, final decree of divorce for plaintiff and maiden name restored. [Note: Nora Heck is likely identical with Nora Heck, 23 IL, living in St. Louis in 1920. The final degree of divorce was granted 7 March 1929 but on 26 Feb 1927 Maurice already remarried.]
5th marriage--1927----EMMA J. JOHNSON.
From Williams County, Ohio Marriage Records:
Maurice L. Bodine, minister of the gospel, of Bowling Green, Ohio, aged 58 on 1 March 1927, born in Richland Center, Indiana to Wesley Bodine & Arabell Buell AND Emma J. Johnspn, of Charlotte, Williams County, Ohio, aged 67 on 23 Feb 1927, born in DeKalb County, Indiana, daughter of F. A. Johnson AND Margaret Hammond, were married 26 Feb 1927 by D. A. Webster, J.P.
From Michigan Divorce Records:
Maurice L. Bodine AND Emma J. Bodine, who had married 26 Feb 1927 in Bryan, Ohio, were divorced 14 Oct 1930 in Grand Traverse County.
6th marriage--1940--EMMA J. JOHNSON.
From Defiance County, Ohio Marriage Records:
Maurice L. Bodine, minister, aged 62 on 1 March 1930, of Morganville, Kansas, born Steuben County, Indiana son of Wesley Bodine & Arabelle Buell, that he was twice previously married with one wife dead and one divorced AND Emma J. Bodine, aged 60 on 23 Feb 1930, of Traverse City, Michigan, born in DeKalb County, Indiana, daughter of Francis A. Johnson & Margaret Hammond, twice divorced, were married 20 Nov 1930 by S. E. Brewster, D.D., Hicksville, Ohio.
1940 Wichita, Sedgwick Co., KS: Maurice L. BODINE 72 IN divorced.