Notes for: Hiram Bodine
From Ronny Bodine (August 21, 2020):
From: History of Livingston County, Michigan, Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1880.
p. 245, Handy Township: The Village of Fowlerville was surveyed and platted in 1849 and Hiram Bodine settled there in 1853-55. The Village of Fowlerville was incorporated 15 April 1871 and Hiram Bodine was one of the 49 electors. On 3 June 1871 he was appointed a Trustee.
In June 1870, Hiram Bodine was single and living with his parents in Handy Township, Livingston County. Over the next few years he married. His wife, Ada Ferguson, is known from the death record of their son Amos, wherein his parents are named.
From Land Records of Livingston County, Michigan.
Deed of 15 April 1875 from Hiram and Ada Bodine of Fowlerville, Handy Twp. to Mary R. Flanders of the same place, for $200, Lot 103 in Fowlerville. Recorded 19 May 1875 in Deed Book 63, p. 189.
Deed of 15 April 1875 from Ralph and Charles Fowler of Handy Twp., to Hiram Bodine of the same place, for $50, land in the Village of Fowler. Recorded 19 May 1875 in Deed Book 64, p. 32.
Deed of 3 March 1876 from Hiram Bodine to Adia Bodine, both of Handy Twp., for $600, Lot 19 in the Town of Handy. Recorded 11 March 1876 in Deed Book 66, p. 123.
Deed of 11 April 1876 from Adia Bodine of Handy Twp. to William H. Spencer & Mary E. Spencer, for $900, Lot 19 and the west 1/2 of Lot 108 in Fowlerville. Recorded 26 April 1876 in Deed Book 67, p. 107.
Deed of 10 Sept 1879 from "Ada Dibble formerly Ada Bodine of Shiawassee County" to Ora H. Corbett of Hamburg, Livingston County, for $100, Lot 19 and the west 1/2 of Lot 108 in Fowlerville. Recorded 19 Sept 1879 in Deed Book 69, p. 374.
Hiram and Ada Bodine may have divorced in 1876 as why would he sell land to his wife and the same year she remarried? His son apparently was born in June 1876 in Livingston County. Based on the 1900 census, Ada married Darwin Dibble in 1876. The marriage record could not be located. Hiram Bodine cannot be located in the 1880 or 1900 censuses and must have died prior to 1880.
The 1891 marriage record of Maud Debble [sic] to Oliver Pulhamus in Livingston County, Michigan names Maud's parents as Darwin Debble and Ada Ferguson.
1880 Newberg, Shiawassee Co., MI: Darwin DIBBLE 26 OH jockey, Ada 25 OH, Amos 5 MI son, Maude 3 MI dau, Fred FURGERSON 14 MI brother.
1900 Porter Twp., Midland Co., MI: Darwin DIBBLE Feb 1855 PA, Ada Aug 1858 OH wife, 4 Dibble children. Married 24 years, Ada bore 8 children of whom 7 are living.
1910 Lakefield Twp., Saginaw Co., MI: Darwin DIBBLE 57 PA, Ada 69 OH wife. Married 35 years. Darwin's 1st marriage, Ada's 2nd marriage.
In 1920, Darwin Dibble, 76 and Ada, 74, Lived in Saginaw, Saginaw Co., MI and in 1930, Darwin Dibble, 79, now widowed, lived in Bay City, Bay County, Michigan.
From the Michigan Death Certificate of Mrs. Ada DABBLE [sic], married, born 28 Aug 1847 in Lorain, Ohio, dau. of James Ferguson; died 20 Aug 1924 in Saginaw, Saginaw County and buried in Bently, Michigan. Lawrence Dabble of Saginaw, informant.
Obituary, Bay City (MI) Times of Thur., 21 Aug 1924.
Dibble---Mrs. Ada Dibble. 76 years old, wife of Darwin Dibble and a former resident of Bentley died Wednesday at her home in Kochville township, Saginaw county. Surviving her are her husband and five children, Mrs. Albert Solomon and Lawrence Dibble, Saginaw; Mrs. Louis Rabodioux, Bay City; Mrs. Edward Frost, St. Louis, Mich., and Mrs. Roy Baker, Houghston Lake. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Ogden, Saginaw and Mrs. Ida Whelpley, Cambridge Springs, Pa., and one granddaughter. The funeral will take place at 9 o'clock Saturday morning from the Case chapel and at 12 o'clock at Bentley, Mich. Rev. J. S. Steininger will officiate with burial in Bentley.