Notes for: John Bodine
We are not sure which line of Bodines this family belongs to. They may have been Catholic, though. That could narrow down the possibilities. He might also have come from a Bodine family who emigrated to America later on than the other Bodine lines.
From Ronny Bodine:
From Jefferson County, Kentucky Marriage Records:
John Bodine and Pheby O'Donnell, widow, were married 21 Nov 1848.
From Cowlitz County, Washington Marriage Records:
John Bodine, of Freeport and Elizabeth Wood of Kelso, were married 15 Jan 1889 at Kelso by T. M. Pickles, M.G. Witnesses were W. G. Wood and W. A. Bodine.
John and Pheba Bodine lived 1850 in Jefferson County, Kentucky and 1860 in Daviess County, Kentucky. In 1870, John Bodine was widowed and lived in Republic, Republic County, Kansas. In 1880 he lived in Cowlitz County, Washington. John and Elizabeth Bodine lived June 1900 in Monticello, Cowlitz County next door to their son William and his family. John reported he and Elizabeth had been married 41 years and she had borne 1 child who was still living. In April 1910, Elizabeth Bodine, age 78, lived with her son (from her 1st marriage), S. A. Settle and his family, in West Kelso, Cowlitz County. According to her Washington death certificate, Elizabeth Bodine was the daughter of William and Anna (Holmes) Jackson. In 1889, she married John Bodine as Elizabeth Wood. John Bodine was buried in Cowlitz View Memorial Gardens in Kelso, where his badly worn gravemarker reads John Bodine Born Mar 1825 Died July 1902.
In all censuses but 1880, when he said he was born in New York, he reported he was born in New Jersey and in 1880 and 1900 he said his father was born in New Jersey and his mother in Holland.
Obituary, Bellville Telescope (Bellville, Kansas) of 25 July 1902.
The community was startled last Saturday morning, July 5th by the announcement that Grandpa Bodine was found dead in his bed. He was an aged man, born in the state of New Jersy in 1825, he had lived several years beyond his three score and ten, and had been strong and robust all his life. He retired the evening of July 4tb in his usual health, only a day previous he remarked to a friend that he was so well, never better in his life, but grim monster came for him im the silent watching of the night when, all alone he passed in the great "great beyond." Mr. John Bodine moved from New Jersy to Kentucky and was there married at the age of 22 years to Mrs. Phebe O' Danald who was a widow with two sons, John and Francis. She died March 8 1870. From Kentucky be emigrated to Republic county where he remained until 1876, when he moved to Washington, then a territory and settled in Cowlitz county, where he has lived every since. In 1889 he married his present wife Mrs. Elizabeth Wood who in feeble health still survives him. The other surviving members of his family are six children, Mrs. E. Beck and Mrs. Alice Mullholand, of Los Angeles, California, Mrs. E. Ray, of Gold Hill Oregon, Mrs. S. A. Settle, of Seattle, and two sons, William. A. and E. Bodine, of Catlin Washington. The deceased was a member ot the A. F. & A. M. which order took charge of the funeral arrangements. Rev. Rouse, of_the Christian church, conducted the services at his late residence on Sunday afternoon at one o'clock, after which the large funeral cortage wended its way to the beautiful Odd Fellows cemetery near Kelso where the interment took place according to the Masonic rules. The pallbearers were all members of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Grandpa Bodine lived an honorable upright life, a defender of the truth and we can but hope that he died with that peace of mind which only conquers death. Comfort for those who mourn come from sympathizing friends and kindly words will lighten the sorrow, that for the present enshroud their lives.
NOTE: In the 1850 Jefferson County, Kentucky Census the children John W., age 6, and James, age 5, are the issue of John Bodine's wife Pheby, of her first marriage, as noted in the 1902 newspaper obituary, that John Bodine married "Mrs. Phebe O'Danald [sic] who as a widow with two sons, John and [James] Francis." Both sons lived with John and Phoebe Bodine in Daviess County, Kentucky in 1860, but there whereabouts thereafter are not known.