Notes for: Anna L. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
The Knight family was living 1860-1870 in Upper Mansfield Township and 1880 in Doylestown Township, Bucks County where Edwin engaged in farming. He served as treasurer of Bucks County 1875-1878. See a biographical sketch in Battle, J. H.. "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," Philadelphia Chicago: A. Warner, 1887, p. 856, 859 and "Comly family in America : descendants of Henry and Joan Comly who came to America in 1682 from Bedminster, Somersetshire, England : with short accounts of the ancestors of Charles and Debby Ann (Newbold) Comly," Philadelphia, Pa.: Privately pub. under supervision of J.B. Lippincott, 1939, p. 278.
Children: Robert B. (15 Feb 1849), Henry M. (21 June 1851), Jonathan Thomas (27 April 1855), Caroline B. (18 May 1860).