From Ronny Bodine (Dec. 11, 2022):
Here is a photo Ronny Bodine sent me of Jake that he obtained from Jake's daugther Johnnie back in 1981:
According to older family members Jake accompanied his mother and brother John to the Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) following the death of his father in 1891. Jake remained there after his mother and brother returned to Tennessee. At that time Jake was still a child and it seems he must have been left in the care of another family. Later he moved to Texas and settled in Hunt County where he made his living as a farmer.
From Hunt County, Texas Marriage Records:
Jake Bodine AND Nannie Morgan were married 12 Aug 1909 by S. M. Stephrus, J.P.
Jake does not appear on the 1900 census for Tennessee, the Indian Territory or Texas. First mention of him at any time is through his marriage record in Hunt County in 1909.
The only independent mention of Jake, other that that of his marriage, is the 1910 Texas census which noted his real name, Jacob, and provides the only existing record of his birth.
On 17 July 1925, the surviving heirs of Taylor Bodine presented a bill to the Chancery Court of Meigs County regarding the disposition of the real estate of Taylor Bodine. The defandants in this case were Jake's two children. On 21 Oct 1926, Jake's widow wrote a short letter to the court on behalf of her children, giving her address as Wolfe City, Texas.
Following the death of her husband, Nannie (Morgan) Bodine married Reece Harrison Lacy on 10 Nov 1912 in Hunt County. Reece, a farmer himself, died 4 Feb 1959 in Greenville. Reece and Nannie Lacy were buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery.
The two children of Jacob and Nannie Bodine later assumed the name of their step-father, Lacy. None of their descendants bear the name Bodine.
His daughter, Johnnie, related from being told by her mother Nannie, that Jake was drunk when he fell from his buggy and was buried in Webb Hill Cemetery, near Wolfe City, in Hunt County. The cemetery no longer exists.
Obituary, The Bryan (TX) Eagle of 2 Nov 1911.
Greenville, Texas, Nov. 1.---Jake Bodine is dead and Henry Morris was arrested as the result of a quarrel in which, according to Morris, not one blow was struck. Morris says the two men were returning from Celeste to Whiterock. On the way they quarreled and got out of the buggy to fight, when Bodine stumbled and fell, breaking his neck.