From: outahere at juno.com
To: diana_seal at hotmail.com
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Subject: Whitworth-Bodine
Diana, it's good to hear from you.
You have me puzzled, for I have the parents of John M. Whitworth -- who I assume is your John Morgan Whitworth -- as Claiborne Whitworth (b. 1823) and Hannah Bodine (b. ca 1822), the daughter of James Bodine (1793-1836) and Catherine Butler (1795/6-1880). James's grandparents are my ancestors, James Bodine (Sr.) and wife Mary.
Hannah Bodine (b. ca 1822) had siblings Mary Ann, Ann, Susannah, Henry, Francis, William, Sarah.
Susannah md. 1836 in Marshall Co., TN, Joseph Whitworth (1815-1886), whose parents I don't know. So yes, he might be a brother.
But you say John's wife was Hannah Bodine. Is this a 2nd person by this name (his wife and his mother?) or a mixup. Do you have a Bible record or some other good primary source for the names of his wife and mother?
My grandmother back around late 1940s wrote down all the family history she'd been told by the fireside, no doubt, by her father and her father-in-law. In more than once instance, she reversed the generations in her stories and this was accepted as Gospel by some of her children, hard to convince them when the evidence proved that the great-grandmother or father was the grandfather or grandmother, and vice versa, for example, in more than one side of the family.
You might want to look at Bodine on my website, too: http://OurTexasFamily.com (my Revolutionary ancestor William Longley md. Mary Ann Bodine, dau. of James and Mary mentioned above, in Loudoun Co., VA 1784 and the families both moved down the Shenandoah to Sevier Co., TN).
Thanks,
Doris Ross Johnston
Database: ourtexasfamily
Individual: I30088
Link: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ourt
exasfamily&id=I30088
Name: Diana Seal
Email: diana_seal at hotmail.com
Doris please contact me I think we MIGHT be relatives. My grand father was James Walter Whitworth and his father was John Morgan Whitworth. John's wifes name was Hannah BODINE.Is it possible that your Susanah and my Hannah were sisters and married brothers?
From Ronny Bodine:
Claiborne Whitworth was a farmer according to the 1860 Marshall County census. In 1870, his wife, Hannah, was head of the household which included 3 of their children. Claiborne is believed to have left his family for South Carolina never to return.
The marriage record of Claborn Whitworth and Hannah Bodine notes the couple received the consent of their parents Clabourn Whitworth and Catherine Bodine, widow, who stated that both the bride and groom were under age.
Children: Samuel (c1846), Albert (c1848), Joseph W. (c1850), Claborn Alexander (12 May 1854), William H. (c1855), Martha J. (c1856).