Notes for: Lorinda Bodine
There is information on this family at http://www.huntertownhistoricalsoc.org/families/Surfus.htm.
Dianna Alaniz wrote all the following:
They married 31 Aug 1856 Allen Co, IN and Allen BODINE was the witness. I also found them listed under Noble Co, OH at the LDS, but the Allen Co, IN is an extract from legal documents. I obtained information on their son William thru the LDS Ancestral Records, as someone is doing that direct line. This last name can also be spelled SURFACE. Charles Finton, son-in-law of Lillie Whitehead says she was born the date stated but in the census records show Abt 1839.
I found them listed in the 1860 Allen Co, Cedar Creek Twp, IN census and Peter was 23, a farmer born in Ohio. Lorinda was 25. Their children: Eventus L. age 2 and born in Indiana. There was a Calvin SURFUS age 16 living with them which might be PeterÆs brother. Right next to their name is a William CHESTER, age 32 and a carpenter who was married to a Lucinda age 29. I think she might have been LorindaÆs sister but have no proof yet. They had children: Sarah E. age 10 born in Ohio, William age 4 born Ohio and Emily J. age 2 born Indiana.
A. Eventus Leroy SURFUS - b: Abt 1858 IN. M: Anna Jane CLARK. This information is from History of DeKalb Co, IN.
B. William Denison SURFUS - b: 25 Sep 1861 Wolf Lake, Noble, IN, d: 18 Nov 1922. M: 21 Nov 1885, Anna Julia MILLER, b: 11 Aug 1866 Wolf Lake, Noble, IN, d: 9 Jul 1928 Kimmell, Noble, IN
From Ronny Bodine:
In June 1900, Peter Surfus lived with his 2nd wife and their children in Noble Township, Noble County, Indiana engaged in farming. Lorinda Surfus was buried in Wolflake Cemetery, Noble County, Indiana. Her grave marker notes she was the wife of Peter and provides the exact dates of her birth and death.
From: Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical. Chicago: F.A. Battey & Co., 1882, p. 464.
Peter Surfus is a native of this state. Born near the city of Lafayette in 1836. His parents moved into DeKalb County the following January. He has lived in this township fifteen years. He moved to the state of Iowa in 1856, where he stayed three and a half years, then returned to this state, where he has since been content to remain. He now lives on a farm of 120 acres, three-fourths of a mile north of Wolf Lake. Mr. Surfus has made grain threshing his business a portion of the time every year for twenty-seven years. On the last day of August, 1856 he married Miss Lorinda Bodine, whose parents were originally from Pennsylvania, but moved into Ohio at an early day. Her mother is now living in this state in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Mr. Surfus descends from a very hardy ancestry, noted for their longevity. The following are the name of their children: Eventus Leroy, William D., Alice Jane, Myrta Matilda. Two children are dead. Eventus and Alice are married. Alice married George H. Herrick. The grandfather of Mr. Surfus on his father's side was a soldier of the Revolution and was with Gen. Wayne on is campaign against the Indians in Ohio and Indiana. Noble Twp
Children: Eventus LeRoy (29 Oct 1857), William Dennison (25 Sept 1861), Alice Jane (11 Feb 1864), Charles Eugene (20 March 1870), Elizabeth Irene (20 March 1870), Myrta Matilda (8 May 1873).