Notes for: Oscar Fitzler/Franklin Bodine

The book "Some Pennsylvania Genealogies" gives his birth date as December 1, 1828. I've also seen December 1, 1829. LDS says he was born on October 30, 1828 in New York. This is the approximate date one would arrive at from his age at death. Maybe the December date is when he was baptized. My computer figures his birth date to be October 28, 1828 if he died at the age given below. I'll go with this last one.

Catherine Horman's information says he was a constable in Genesee County, Michigan in 1852.

Here is his death record.

BODINE, OSCAR F
Date of death: 8-May-1879
Ledger Page: 207
Record Number: 467
Place of death: Montrose Mi
County of Death: Genesee
Sex: Male
Race: WHITE
Marital Status: Married
Age: 50 years 6 months 8 days
Cause of Death: ABSCESS
Birthplace: NEW YORK
Occupation: LUMBER MAN
Father's Name: Bodine, WILLIAM
Father's Residence: VVIENNA MI
Mother's Name: BODINE, MARY
Mother's Residence: VIENNA MI
Date of record: 14-May-1879

M. Crowell wrote, "Oscar and his family are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Clio, Genesee, Michigan. There is a beautiful marble monument with the Bodine name on it."

From Ronny Bodine:

From Michigan Death Records: Oscar F. Bodine died 8 May 1879 of an abcess in Montrose, Genesee County aged 50 years, 6 months and 8 days. A native of New York, he was a lumber man and the son of William and Mary Bodine.

Oscar Bodine lived all of his married life in Genesee County, Michigan. In 1870, he was employed in a sawmill. In 1900, Cornelia Bodine lived in Clio, Genesee County where she reported her occupation as that of a retired farmer and that she had borne 7 children of whom 5 were then living. Only Nora, her daughter, was living with her. Oscar and Cornelia Bodine were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Vienna Township, Genesee County. For photographs of their grave markers see Find A Grave Memorials # 75734211 and 75734214. Cornelia was the daughter of George T. and Cornelia (Neff) Bingham.

There are differences in his middle name. Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies, Harrisburg, 1896, p. 169 gives his name as Oscar Fitzler Bodine. Curry, Dorothy Neff. The descendants of William Neff who married Mary Corliss : January 23, 1665, Haverhill, Massachusetts (c1958), p. 85, states he was Oscar Franklin Bodine.