Notes for: Gladys Mae Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

J. N. Ewing taught the 7th grade at Euchee School, in Meigs County, during the 1922-3 school year and recorded Gladys's birthdate as 11 January 1906. The year should have read 1907 which is supported by her age of 3 and 13 respectively in the 1910 and 1920 censuses of Meigs County.

Joseph Sink, had farmed in Meigs County most of his adult life. Suffering from prostate cancer during his final 3 years he died of a myocardial insufficiency in Athens and was buried in Pisgah Cemetery, in Meigs County.

Having remarried in 1972, Oliver 'O. R.' and Gladys Nichols moved to Athens, in McMinn County in 1973. O. R. died there of pneumonia and cancer in 1982 and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Gladys died of congestive heart failure at her home, 924 Boaz Street, in Athens and was buried in Pisgah Cemetery next to her 1st husband, Murvin Sink. She had been a member of Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church in Meigs County and after moving to Athens had joined Woodward Avenue Church of God.

Children of Gladys Bodine and Murvin Sink: Beatrice Jean (1929), Kenneth Bige (1931 - 1987), Bruce Lawrence (1932 - 1997), Jackson Riley (1934), Shirley Jo (1937), Norma Joyce (1939), Lester William (1941 - 1979), Joseph David (1942), Ralph Prentice (1944 -2002), Alvin Douglas (1945), Ruby Elaine (1947), Hazel Elois (1947), Carol Darlene (1951).