Notes for: Lawrence (Laurence) Hoppock Bodine
This family came from Historical and Biographical Sketch of the Bodine Family, compiled by Colonial Research Bureau, Washington, D. C.
His name on his tombstone is "L. H. Bodine."
From Ronny Bodine (Jan. 18, 2021):
1st marriage--1846--ELIZABETH EVANS.
From Marriages of Duane Street Methodist Church (Manhattan) 1838-1863 contained in New York City Methodist Marriages 1785-1893, by William Scott Fisher, NYG&BS, 1994.
Lawrence H. Bodine AND Elizabeth Bierley were married 31 Oct 1846.
In 1850, Lawrence H. Bodine, age 36, was living with his wife in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He reported his occupation as a mahogany sawyer. In 1860, he lived in Yonkers as L. H. Bodine, age 47, and in 1870 in New York Co. as Lawrence Bodin, 59, with wife Elizabeth, 59 and son Nelson A., 19.
In 1880, Lawrence Bodine, age 67 and a widower, lived with his son Nelson in Manhattan, New York City where he worked as a sawyer. Based upon the four censuses, his birth ranged from 1811 to 1814.
City Directories for Yonkers, Westchester County, NY for 1886 list Lawrence Bodine, sawyer and for 1892, Lawrence H. Bodine.
2nd marriage--after 1892--JANE A. TURNER.
Some time in or after 1892, Lawrence Bodine remarried.
From The Yonkers (N.Y.) Statesman of Tuesday, 2 Jan 1894.
The venerable L. H. Bodine, of 48 Wood worth avenue, while walking down Dock street, on Saturday, we regret to announce, slipped on the ice, fell, and broke his arm.
Obituary, Yonkers (NY) Statesman of Tuesday, 25 Feb 1896.
BODINE---In this city, on Monday, Feb. 24, 1896, LAWRENCE H. BODINE, in the 83d year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, 48 Wordsworth avenue, on Wednesday afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock.
His death was not recorded in New York state death records.
The 1895 NY census for Westchester County is lost, but the 1900 census shows:
1900 Yonkers, Westchester Co., NY: Jan BODINE July 1842 NY widow boarding house, Anna TURNER Feb 1847 PA sister single
1905 Yonkers, Westchester Co., NY: Jennie BODINE 64, Annie R. TURNER 56 cousin.
From Yonkers NY City Directories:
1904 Jennie A. Bodine, widow of Lawrence
1906 Jane A. Bodine, widow of Lawrence.
From Descendants from the First Ancestor in America, Jacob Burhans, 1660, and his Son, Jan Burhans, 1663, to 1893, by Samuel Burhans, Jr., New York, 1894:
p. 149: Children of Sally A. Donnelly and Mathew Moore.
2707 Josephine Melissa, b. 18 March 1854, m. 21 April 1875 Nelson A. Bodine, b. 19 Oct 1850, son of Lawrence Hoppock Bodine and Elizabeth Evans.