This picture is of a family reunion in Woodstock, Connecticut about 1887. The location is the Bugbee family homestead, 350 Roseland Park Rd, Woodstock and is still there. At the time Ellen (Bugbee) Child and her husband Able Child (she was Henry Bugbee's half sister) owned the house but are not in the picture.
Betty said, "The two older people seated, I believe, are Henry Keith Bugbee and Sarah Patch who were visiting. The children on the wall I know are Edwin Bugbee and Mary Bugbee (my grandmother) who are a nephew and niece of Henry Bugbee and first cousins of Anna Ella Bugbee who married Ernest Cooper Bodine. After this I am guessing... This is my guess: The three standing women are Mary “Rilla” Bugbee, Alice Bugbee and to the right Anna E. (Bugbee) Bodine. The man behind Anna Bodine is her husband Ernest Cooper Bodine and son, Henry Keith Bodine. Possibly Joel Alfred Bodine standing under the tree. And I have no idea who the young lady is who is sitting under the tree."
Betty also wrote, "It occurred to me that the lady under the tree was probably one of Ernest Bodine's sisters, probably the youngest, Anna (Fannie) Bodine. Compare that face to the one on your website for her. Once I looked at pictures on your site I felt more confident that the people noted were very likely the Bodines I thought they were."
And here is a larger picture of the family and house:
The names of his children came from the Mathis site at www.my-ged.com. This is maintained by Wendy Mathis Lex. at WendyL5971 at aol.com.
Ernest was a resident of Williamstown, New Jersey. He died while working on his garden (Williamstown, NJ?).
From Ronny Bodine:
The marriage of Ernest Bodine and Ella Bugbee, both of Williamstown, on 25 Dec 1883, was reported in the Woodbury "Constitution" of 3 Jan 1884. Ernest Bodine served for a time in the United States Marine Corps and then became associated with the Bodine Glass Works in December 1898 and in February 1899 became its treasurer. In 1900 and 1910, the family was living in Gloucester County. Anna reported in 1900 she had borne 9 children of who 8 were then living. Ernest Bodine died in 1908 of heart trouble and was buried in Bridgeport Cemetery. By April 1910, Anna, now a widow, reported she had borne 10 children of who 9 were still living. In 1930, she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Esther and Christopher Johnson, in Tullytown Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Anna (Bugbee) Bodine was the daughter of Henry Keith and Sarah (Patch) Bugbee. See his biography in "Biographical, genealogical and descriptive history of the First Congressional District of New Jersey," New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1900, II: 287 and his obituary in the Woodbury "Constitution" of 10 June 1908 and the "Gloucester County Democrat" of 11 June 1908.
Death Notice, 9 June 1908, the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Williamstown, N.J. June 8.---Earnest C. Bodine, one of the most prominent residents of this place, dropped dead today while working in his garden.
BODINE.---At Williamstown, N.J. on June 8, 1908, ERNEST C. son of the late J. Alfred and Phoebe J. Bodine, aged 51 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence Williamstown, N.J. on Thursday, June 11, at 2 P.M.
Obituary, Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, N.J.) of 29 May 1939.
TULLYTOWN. May 29.---Mrs. Anna E. Bodine died Saturday night after a long illness at the home here of her daughter, Mrs. Chris Johnson. The funeral will be private and interment will be at the convenience of the family in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden.
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From: B A Clark
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009
Subject: Bodine Genealogy
Is this email address still good? I have Bugbee information and may have a picture of Ernest Cooper Bodine.
Betty