Notes for: Margaret Jane Bodine
Her parents may have been from Warwick County, Virginia. This comes from a comment at her baptism "of Warwick County." She was baptized at the house of her grandfather, James Bodine by Rev. John C. Bechler.
Edwin Salter is a noted historian and genealogist. His biography can be found in A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties: Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants.
From Ronny Bodine:
The baptismal register of the Moravian Church records the baptism of Margaret Jane Bodine on 15 Oct 1831 "at the dwelling of the grandfather, James Bodine."
From Ocean County, New Jersey Marriage Records:
Edwin Salter AND Margaret Jane Bodine were married 6 March 1853 by David J. C. Rogers, J.P.
Edwin Salter served as representative to the State Assembly from Ocean County, 1857-1859 and as Speaker of the State Assembly, 1859-1861. He was the author (with G. C. Beekman) of "Old Times in Old Monmouth; Historical Reminiscences of Old Monmouth County, Now Monmouth and Ocean Counties" (1874) and "A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties" (1890).
1880 Washington, D.C.: Edwin SALTER 56 NJ Clerk Treas. Dept., Margaret 50 VA wife.
From A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, by Edwin Salter, Bayonne, NJ, 1890, pp. vii-ix.
Edwin Salter died at Forked River, N.J., December 15, 1888, aged sixty-four years. He was the son of Amos Salter and Sarah Frazier, and was descended from some of the oldest families of Monmouth county- the Bownes, Lawrences and Hartshornes. His original ancestor in America emigrated from Devonshire, England, and settled at Middletown previous to 1687. He was a lawyer, a man of distinguished ability, which was illustrated in the part which he took as counsel with Captain John Bowne in the controversies of the people with the Lords' Proprietors. Edwin Salter was born in Bloomingdale, Morris Co., February 6th, 1824. While a youth, he removed with his parents to the more northern part of the State. At the age of fourteen, he became a member of a Presbyterian Sunday school in Newark; three years later he made a profession of his faith in Christ, in a church of the same order. He subsequently removed to Philadelphia and was there employed as a clerk in a book-store, but afterwards removed to Forked River and taught school. For a time he led a seafaring life, being master of a schooner in the coasting trade. In 1857 he was elected by the Republicans of Ocean county as their representative in the Assembly of New Jersey, the first Free Soil member in that body. He was returned for the two following years and in the session of 1859 he was elected Speaker and filled the position with great ability. In 1861 he received an appointment in the United States Treasury Department, which he held for five years, when he resigned. He was reappointed shortly afterwards to a clerkship in the Fourth Auditor's office, where he remained till 1886, when he returned to Ocean County. He had a taste for historical research, especially in the-study of genealogical lines. He spent much of his time in his later years in prosecuting his researches into the history of the early families of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, his residence at Washington affording him Peculiar facilities for the work, through his ready access to the National Archives. The information here obtained was supplemented by searches of the public records of states and counties, north and south. At the time of his death he had accumulated a vast amount of historical and genealogical matter-the work of years of patient and laborious research- for a history of Monmouth and Ocean counties, which he had long contemplated publishing. Referring to notices he had prepared of the principal families now represented in Monmouth, he wrote in a letter to a friend on the 14th of November, 1888, only a month before his death, "Take the matter altogether, I believe it will be the most complete account of the early settlers (and settlement) ever published of any county in the United States settled previous to 1700." Mr. Salter was the author of a series of historical sketches published in the Monmouth Democrat, 1873-'74, entitled "Old Times in Old Monmouth." His frequent contributions to the journals of Monmouth and Ocean over the signatures of "Selah Searcher" and "Pilot," bear testimony among others to his zeal in historical study and his readiness to give the fruits of his research to his fellow citizens. Edwin Salter's name stands enrolled as a member of a Presbyterian Sunday-school at Forked River, in 1831. In 1860, he was superintendent of the same school, beside teaching the Bible-class. He married, in 1852, Margaret Bodine, of Barnegat, who survives him. Their son, George W. Salter, a most estimable young man, died at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 27th, 1880, of typhus fever, while stationed at that port as paymaster's clerk of the United States Naval Depot. Mr. Salter was a man of great force of character, generous, open-hearted and strong in the maintenance of the right. He had no sympathy with lawlessness or lowness of aim. Without pretension, he aspired to the best in personal, domestic and social life. In his religious life there was no affectation or cant. A genuine heartiness and catholicitv of spirit moulded his creed and his conduct. His manners were genial, his spirit was broad and liberal. He was a simple-hearted, earnest Christian gentleman. He filled a large place in the affections of his friends and acquaintances, by whom his death is most sincerely mourned. He was elected a member of the New Jersey Historical Society on May 21st, 1863, and was esteemed one its most valuable members in promoting the purposes of its organization. His remains were laid in the Masonic Cemetery at Barnegat, after a funeral service held at the Presbyterian Church.
1900 Lacey, Ocean Co., NJ: Margaret SALTER Feb 1830 VA, Edwin W. Nov 1877 NY adopted son, Adelaid Oct 1881 GA dau-in-law. Bore 2 children/0 living.
From the Virginia Death Certificate of Mrs. Margaret Salter, died 4 March 1921 at the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, aged 91 of apoplexy due to senility.
Burials in the Masonic Cemetery, Barnegat, Ocean County, New Jersey.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 12310213)
EDWIN SALTER Died December 15, 1888 Aged 64 Years & 9 Months
No headstone for Margaret Salter.