Notes for: Elizabeth Jane Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
William and Elizabeth McNaughteney were living 1910-1930 with Elizabeth's parents in Frenchcreek Township, Venango County. William reported that in 9 years of marriage, Elizabeth had borne no children. Both William and Elizabeth were engaged as public school teachers. William McCaughtry registered for the World War 1 draft on 12 Sept 1918 in Franklin, Venango County. William and Elizabeth McCaughtry were buried in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango County. For photographs of their grave markers see Findagrave Memorials No. 62644456 and 62644481.
From Mercer County, Pennsylvania Marriage Records:
W. E. McCautry, of New Lebanon, Pa., school teacher, born 21 Oct 1874 in New Lebanon AND Elizabeth O. Bodine, of Utica, Pa., born 10 Jan 1879 in Utica, were married 20 June 1900 by Rev. C. N. Moore.
Newspaper Obituary, The News-Herald (Franklin, Pa.) of Thursday, 11 Nov 1943.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bodine McCaughtry, 64, wife of W. E. McCaughtry, died unexpectedly at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at their home at Bodine Corners, Georgetown Road. Death was due to a heart attack. Mrs. Bodine was born Jan. 10, 1879, on the farm in Frenchcreek Township where she spent her entire life. She was the daughter of Lewis L. and Lucy Heasley Bodine. For 18 years she taught school, most of that time in Frenchcreek Township. She was favorably known by a wide circle of friends. The body will be returned to the family home Friday morning, where it will remain until 11 a.m. Saturday, when it will be brought back to the Buchanan Funeral Home for services at 2 p.m. Rev. Homer Miller, of Volant, a former neighbor, will officiate. Burial will be in Franklin Cemetery.
Newspaper Obituary, Oil City Blizzard (Oil City, Pa.) of 10 March 1949.
Stricken ill suddenly, William L. McCaughtry, 74, retired school teacher and a member of the Frenchcreek township school board, fell dead in his home shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, and his wife, Mrs. Bessie Maberg McCaughtry, a teacher in the Nicklin school, suffered a fracture of the left arm in a fall from a porch while seeking to summon aid for her stricken husband. Mr. McCaughtry had been in his usual good health Tuesday and attended a meeting of the school board Tuesday evening. Two other members of the board stopped at his home, Bodine's Corners, Georgetown Road, to take Mr. McCaughtry to the meeting and they returned him to his home at about 10 p.m. He took a bundle of school supplies home with him for his wife. Mrs. McCaughtry had retired for the night. She heard the car and said she heard Mr. McCaughtry enter the house. Shortly afterward Mrs. McCaughtry heard a thud, but presumed that he had dropped the supplies. She called to her husband and when he did not respond she went downstairs to investigate and found her husband prostrate on the floor of the living room. She ascertained that he was either seriously ill or dead. She dressed hurriedly and ran a quarter mile distant to the house of Archie McMurray. She tried to awaken members of the McMurray family, but was not immediately sucessful. In her anxiety she stepped backwards off the porch and fell a distance of three feet to the ground. Members of the McMurray family helped her into the house and a physician and an ambulance were summoned. Mr. McCaughtry was pronounced dead and it is presumed that he had died at the time Mrs. McCaughtry heard the sound of his fall. Mrs. McCaughtry was removed to the hospital where it was found she suffered a fracture of the left forearm. She was able to leave the hospital Wednesday morning. Mr. McCaughtry was born in New Lebanon on 21 Oct. 1874, the son of the late Archibald and Sarah Dalley McCaughtry. He spent most of his life in Venango county and received his higher education in the McElwain Institute. He taught school for 56 years, most of the time in Venango county, including Reno, Polk and several township schools. For a time he taught in the Ambridge school. He retired in 1940, but because of the shortage of teachers during the war he returned to work for two years. In addition to his teaching he operated a small farm at Bodine's Corners. He was a member of the new Lebanon Presbyterian church and of Myrtle Lodge No. 316, F. and A.M. Mr. McCaughtry was twice married, his first wife having been Elizabeth Bodine, who died several years ago. In January, 1945 he married his brother's widow, Bessie Maharg McCaughtry, who survives together with two sisters, Mrs. Martha Fruit, of Sharpsville, and Mrs. Blanche Voorhees, of Greenville, and the following step-children: William McCaughtry, Cochranton; Mrs. Mary Dean, Youngstown, O; Mrs. Sarah Peterson, Sandy Lake R.D. 1; Mrs. Martha Gathers, Sugarcreek; Mrs. Oaten McClay, New Castle, R.D. 3; and Mrs. Grace McCaughtry, of Bodine's Corners. Friends will be received in the Barron chapel.