Notes for: Abraham (Abram) Low Bodine
Here is some information I had gotten earlier from Ronny Bodine:
Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren Counties, New Jersey, Chapman Pub. Co.: New York, 1898, p. 367-368.
Biography of John D. Cregar:
November 1, 1864, Mr. Cregar married Mary E. Bodine, daughter of Peter and Susan (LeFoy) Bodine. The father was born in Hunterdon County, and was a son of John Bodine, whose home was at Three Bridges. Peter Bodine was a farmer by occupation, and when Mrs. Cregar was born was living in Washington, Warren County, N. J., but soon returned here, settling in Union Township, where he bought a farm and spent the rest of his life. He was a member of the Baptist Church for a number of years prior to his death and was esteemed by all who knew him. His children were as follows: Elizabeth L,., wife of Holloway Van Sickle, of Holland Township; Daniel S., a business man of Stockton, N. J.; John T., deceased; Harriet C, who died in early womanhood; Hettie, who never married; Abraham L., deceased; Catherine, widow of Asa C. Hill, of Medina, N. Y.; Jane, widow of Ezra Dewitt, of Scranton, Pa. ; and Mary E. , Mrs. Cregar.
From Ronny Bodine (Nov. 30, 2019):
He was Abram L. Bodine, age 13, living July 1860 with his parents in Union Township, Hunterdon County. In July 1870, A. L. Bodine, age 23 and single, lived in Union Township, Hunterdon County engaged in farming. His household included his mother Susan and siblings Kate and Jenny. Abram Bodine cannot be located in the 1880 census. His name, Abram Low Bodine, and dates of birth and death appear on a large monument in Bethlehem ("Grandin Church") Presbyterian Cemetery, near Clinton, Union Township, Hunterdon County. It is unclear if he is actually buried in the cemetery.
His marriage to Sarah Blackwell on 12 Oct 1881 was included by Jane L. Bodine DeWitt (1849-1928) in an account of her family in correspondence with Mary Elizabeth Sinnott, author of the 1905 "Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families." The marriage is not on record in Hunterdon County and may have taken place in Pennsylvania.
Obituary, Mansfield (PA) Advertiser of Wed., 20 April 1887.
DIED. BODINE.---In East Smithfield, Tuesday, April 12, 1887, of diabetes, Mrs. A. L. Bodine, daughter of Thomas Blackwell, of Troy, aged 39 years.
In 1880, Sarah Blackwell, 33, was living with her widowed father, Thomas Blackwell, in West Burlington, Bradford County, PA.