Notes for: Otis B. Bodine
REMARRIED LUCY BELL HARVEY 19 AUG 1924 AT FANNIN CO TX; I HAVE BOTH ORIGINAL MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES IN MY POSSESSION - BETTY A. STRAWTHER.
OTIS MOVED TO GRAYFORD, TX, AND HAD A WIFE LESSIE MAE, WHO HAD A DAUGHTER BY OTIS NAMED LAVONNE; LESSIE MAE HAD SON CALVIN AND DAU RUTHIE FAY, BY A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE (PEGGY SPARKS, of MULDROW, OK, WHO IS A NIECE of OTIS).
From Ronny Bodine:
1st marriage--1915--LUCY BELLE HARVEY.
From Fannin County, Texas Marriage Records:
Mr. Odis Bodine AND Miss Lucy Bell Harvey were married 11 Dec 1915 by J. P. Bruner.
Otis Bodine registered for the World War I draft on 5 June 1917 in Fannin County. He reported he was born 6 March 1891 in Bonham, Texas, was a self-employed farmer, and was married.
Otis and Lucy Bodine were divorced and in 1920, Lucy Harvey, 22, lived with her parents in Fannin County. By 1930, she was married to Will B. Pace. Her 3rd husband, whom she survived, was George W. Smith.
From the Texas Death Certificate of Lucy Bell Smith: widow, retired practical nurse, born 12 Nov 1898 in Bailey, Texas, dau. of William A. & Sallie B. (Goodwin) Harvey, died 16 March 1973 in Honey Grove, Fannin County, buried Dodd City Cemetery, Dodd City, Texas.
2nd marriage--1920--LAURA A. SHANNON.
From Bryan County, Oklahoma Marriage Records:
Otis Bodine, 28, of Caddo, Okla. AND Miss Laura A. Shannon, 27, of Fannin, Texas were married 12 Jan 1920 in Durant, Okla. by Charles M. Schoonover, Minister.
His 2nd wife, Laura Shannon, was the daughter of James and Laura A. (Wacaser) Shannon.
1920 Caddo, Bryan Co., OK: Otes W. BODINE 28 TX laborer, Laura A. 26 TX wife.
From Oklahoma Death Records:
Laura Shannon Bodine died 2 Dec 1920 in Bryan County.
3rd marriage-1921--ANNIE STROUD.
Son Isom Otis Bodine was born 27 March 1922 in Ellwood, Harris County, Texas. His birth was not recorded by the state.
The obituary of Dock B. Mitchell, 63, who died 24 April 1959 in Vernon, Texas which appeared in The Paris News of 26 April 1959 names among his survivors a stepson, Isom Bodine. Dock Mitchell was 1st married to Cora Elizabeth Owens in 1920 and between 1921 and 1940 she bore 12 children and died 9 Nov 1943 in Paris, Lamar Co., Texas. In May 1944 in Hugo, Choctaw Co., Oklahoma, Dock married Mrs. Annie Owens. The obituary of Roy E. Mitchell, 42, in The Vernon Daily Record of 3 Aug 1971 names among his survivors his stepmother, Mrs. Annie Mitchell of Vernon, a stepbrother, Isom Bodine of Vernon and a stepsister, Mrs. J. T. Hall of Lubbock.
Mrs. J. T. Hall was Artie Lou Hall, born Artie Lou Curtis on 23 Feb 1934 in Fannin Co., Texas to Philander and Annie (Stroud) Curtis. The Texas Birth Certificate notes Annie, born in Fannin County, has now borne 4 children, 3 presently living and one born alive, but now deceased. Mrs. Hall died in 1976. In 1940, Artie Lou Curtis, 6, lived with her mother, Annie Owens, 37, in Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas.
Based upon the foregoing, it appears that Annie Stroud 1st married Otis Bodine and bore him Isom in 1922, then married Philander Curtis and bore him Artie Lou in 1934, before April 1940 married 3rdly a Owens, and in 1944 married Dock Mitchell. Thus both Isom and Artie were the step-siblings of Dock Mitchell's natural children with Annie Mitchell being their stepmother. Annie Mitchell of Vernon attended the funeral of her stepson Roy Mitchell on 6 Aug 1971 and is named as living in Vernon in a Vernon Daily Record newspaper article of 23 Feb 1973 in relation to her daughter Artie Hall. On 5 July 1979 in Hunt Co., Texas, Annie Stroud Mitchell married Johnnie J. Wilcox.
From Social Security Records:
Annie S. Wilcox, daughter of Isom & Mary C. (Frazier) Stroud, was born 22 Nov 1902 in Gober, Fannin Co., Texas. In Sept 1966 her name appeared as Annie S. Mitchell and in Sept 1979 as Annie S. Wilcox. She died 1 Jan 1988. Her last residence was Atlanta, Cass Co., Texas.
From Texas Death Records:
Annie Wilcox died 6 Jan 1988 in Cass County.
4th marriage--1924--LUCY BELLE HARVEY (2nd time).
From Fannin County, Texas Marriage Records:
Mr. O. B. Bodine AND Miss Lucy Harvey were married 19 Aug 1924 by J. L. Cunningham.
5th marriage--1928--LESSIE MAY KING.
From Sevier County, Arkansas Marriage Records:
Otis Bodine, 33, of Horatio, Ark. AND Mrs. Lessie McCain, 28, of Horatio, Ark., were married 31 March 1928 by J. C. Arnold, Deputy Judge.
In April 1930, Otis and Lessie Bodine were living in Parks, Stephens County, Oklahoma. On 13 Sept 1914 in Horatio, Sevier County, Arkansas as Lissie King, age 14, she was married to Orlando Patten, age 17. In 1920, she, aged 20, lived with Elijah and Alice Patten in Clear Creet Township, Sevier County recorded as their daughter and divorced, with her 2-year old daughter Vesta. But clearly she was their daughter-in-law. One can only surmise that Lessie and Orlando resolved their differences as she bore two more children, Calvin Patten in 1923 and Ruth Patten in 1925. Married in 1928, by April 1930, Otis and Lessie Bodine lived in Parks, Stephens County, Oklahoma with Lessie's 3 Patten children, Vesta 12, Calvin 7 and Ruth 6.
1940 (13 April) Graford, Palo Pinto Co., TX: Otis BODINE 47 TX Common Laborer, Lessie 40 AR wife, Lavone 6 TX dau, Dorothy 5 TX dau, Calvin PATTEN 16 AR stepson.
In 1942, Otis Bodine registered for the World War II Draft as a resident of Graford, Palo Pinto County, Texas. He reported he was born 6 March 1893 in Bonham County, Texas and that Mrs. Lessie Bodine was his next of kin.
The 1957 Carlsbad, New Mexico City Directory lists Mrs. Lessie Bodine as a resident, but was not living with her husband. She is not listed in the 1958 directory.
Obituary, Grand Prairie (Texas) Daily News of 4 Nov 1969.
Services were held at 2 p.m. today for Mrs. Lessie Gray, 69, of 2337 Doreen who died Sunday in a Grand Prairie hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Gray was born in Horatio, Ark. and was a long time resident of Carlsbad, N.M. before coming to Grand Prairie six months ago. She was a member of the Lakeview Baptist Church in Carlsbad. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Vesta Lyons, Carlsbad, Mrs. P. E. Harris and Mrs. Dan Heflin, both of Grand Prairie, and Mrs. W. E. Rea, Farmington, N.M.; one brother, Bail Chandler, Graford, Tex., 25 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
Otis Bodine was buried in Carlsbad Municipal Cemetery, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico.