Notes for: Garrett ("Garrie") Sylvester Bodine
I did have his name as Ganett, but that seems to have been a mistake. RB has it has Garret S. Bodine.
From Ronny Bodine (May 15, 2020):
The 1900 census reported Garrett and Hattie Bodine had been married 18 years, thus married about 1882, Yet, the marriage records of Traverse County, Michigan record that James Kennedy, 24, AND Hattie Knaggs, 16, both of Walton, MI, were married 20 Jan 1878 at Fife Lake and that Herbert Huntington, 25, of Grand Traverse, MI, born in Kalamazoo, MI, son of Wm. & Martha (Munsell) Huntington AND Hattie M. Kennedy, 23, of Traverse City, MI, born in Monroe City, dau. of Robert & Hattie (Bunson) Skaggs, were married 21 Jan 1888 in Silver Corners, by Geo. Simpson, JP.
The answer to this mystery is explained in "The Knaggs Family of Ohio and Michigan," Robert B. Ross, ed., Detroit: 1902, p. 44-45. Mary was the daughter of Robert W. Knaggs (1822-1891) and his 3rd wife, Harriet R. Cone (d. 1902).
"Mattie Mary Knaggs, born at Monroe city, July 13, 1861; married twice. Her first husband was James Kennedy, to whom she was married on Jan. 20, 1878. Three children: The first was a son, and the second a daughter, who both died in infancy. The third, Myrtle May Kennedy, was born March 29, 1885, at Walton, Mich. Divorced from her first husband in 1871. Hattie Mary Knaggs married Garrie Bodine, of St. Louis, MO., on Feb. 22, 1891; no children. She now lives at Shreveport, La., where she carried on the business of dressmaking. Her husband is a contractor and builder."
Obviously the editor was unaware of her second married in 1888. Claiming he (Garrett) and Hattie were married 18 years appears to have been a wish to include his stepdaughter, Mary, as his natural child, and not having to explain her age versus the actual number of years he and Hattie were married. Or, perhaps he had also adopted Mary, as he did his two younger daughters. There is no record of the marriage in St. Louis.
1900 Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA: Garrie BODINE Oct 1859 NJ carpenter & builder, Hattie M. July 1861 MI wife, Myrtie M. March 1885 MI dau. Married 18 years, 1 child borne, 1 living.
1920 Cedar Grove, Caddo Parish, LA: Garrie S. BODINE 60 NJ house carpenter, Hattie 58 MI wife.
Garrie S. and Hattie Bodine appear in the 1926 city directory for Jacksonville, Florida.
1930 Jacksonville, Duval Co., FL: Garray S. BODINE 61 NJ house carpenter, Hattie 59 MI wife. Garray 1st married @ 21, Hattie @ 19.
Garrie S. and Hattie Bodine appear in the 1933 city directory for Jacksonville, Florida.
From Florida Death Records:
Hattie BODINE, daughter of Robert Knoggs & Hariett Benson, wife of G. S. Bodine, died 5 May 1934 in Jacksonville, Duval County, aged 72 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was buried in Shreveport, Louisiana.
From Louisiana Death Records:
Carre Bodine died 6 Sept 1936 in Caddo Parish aged 77 years.
Obituary, The Shreveport (La.) Times) of Sunday, 6 May 1934.
Funeral services for Mrs. G. S. Bodine, 73, Jacksonville, Fla., who died at that place Saturday, will be held from the McCook Brothers funeral home. The hour will be announced later. The body is expected to arrive in Shreveport Monday and will be carried to the funeral home where it will be held until the hour of the funeral. Interment will be in Forest Park cemetery. Surviving the deceased besides the widower are a daughter, Mrs. J. G. Nicholson, six grandchildren and two brothers, Perry Naggs, of Miami, Fla., and W. B. Naggs of Travis City, Mich.
Obituary, The Shreveport (La.) Times) of Monday, 7 Sept 1936.
Garrie S. Bodine, retired contractor of 2109 Seymour street, died at 1:15 p.m., Sunday in a Shreveport sanitarium after a brief illness. The deceased was born Oct. 11, 1860 at Franklin Park, N.J. His wife died May 8, 1934. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. J. Gregg Nicholson of Shreveport, two adopted daughters, Mrs. Astor Cathey, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. R. L. McLendon of Port Arthur, Texas, and several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today from the chapel of McCook Brothers funeral home, with interment in Forest Park cemetery. The Rev. T. C. Pennell, pastor of the Ingleside Baptist church, will officiate. Pallbearers will be Robert Nicholson, Falson Brown, Verdaman Brown, Harry Clemm, Mitchel Prickett, and Will Bishop. [Note: As Garret was 8 months old at the time of the 1860 census, his birth occurred 1859 not 1860.]
Burials in Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo parish, Louisiana.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 183020910 & 183021042)
GARRIE S. BODINE 1860---1936 HATTIE KNAGGS BODINE July 13, 1861 May 5, 1934