Notes for: Anthony ("Tony") Johannes Antonsson Bodine
From: Cheri Anderson [cheribomb1 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Subject: Bodine ancestor genealogy
Hi,
I know exactly who your Anthony Bodine (born 1880 Sweden) father was! And I know where he's buried. I also know his ancestry. I live in Michigan & the father is buried in a neighboring county. I have his story to tell you.
My cell is 231-360-9569.
I am also on Facebook.
Cheri Anderson
From: Cheri Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Subject: Re: Bodine ancestor genealogy
Hi, Dave ~
The Bodine immigrants from Sweden Americanized the spelling to Bodine. The truth behind the name is that is was actually a Military name assigned to Anthony's father Anton (whose name was not really Anthony) & Anton's brother when they were soldiers in the Swedish Army. The assigned Military name was Bodin (no ''e'' at the end). And what I mean by a Military name is that all Scandinavian countries before the 1900s had patronymic surnames (like Jacobsson, Thomasson, Eriksson, Ulriksson - meaning ''son of'' their father's first name). The Anthony J Bodine (born 1880 Sweden) did not truly have a father named Anthony Bodine. His father's real Swedish name was Anton August Thomasson. And Anton's father was Thomas Jacobsson. So many people in Sweden shared the same names, so when the young men went into the Army, they were assigned Military names based on the name of their family's farm in which they lived, or came from. Anton's family farm was called Botels. Earlier spelling of Botels was Batels. The sound of the beginning of the farm name is used & then ''in'' is added to the end of it to make the military name. So in the case of Botels, the military name became ''Bod + in'', as Bodin. Names like these were sort of like address names, to separate an Anton Thomasson Bodin (from Botels) from an Anton Thomasson (from a different farm name).
By the way, Botels is located in När, Gotland, Sweden. That's where Anton August Thomasson was born on 31 August 1853.
There is a sad part to the story too. When Anton Thomasson Bodin & his brother emigrated from Sweden, Anton left his family (wife Anna & children) behind. Anton & his brother took their father's surname of Jacobsson (Americanized to Jacobson). Although Anton already had a wife & children, which he left abandoned in Sweden, he married another woman in Michigan instead.
I can email all the Swedish records & the American records to you & Ronny.
Cheri Anderson
From: Cheri Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Subject: Bodine - Emigration record attached
Dave,
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The Anthony J Bodine (as he was known by in Ohio) was actually given the birth name of Anton when he was born in Sweden. Anthony had a sister whose real birth name was Wendla. She was about 3 years older than him. Those 2 children emigrated from Sweden together in June 1893. They came alone. No mother. If I remember correctly, their mother Anna had died in Sweden. Wendla was age 15 & Anthony (Anton) was about 12. I believe that the 2 children set out for America, thinking that they could find their father. But I do not think that they ever saw him again.
Attached is the June 1893 emigration record of Wendla Bodin, age 15, & Anton Bodin, age 12.
Anthony married Dora Smith on 11 June 1908 in Summit Co., Ohio. But I don't know what ever happened to Wendla after they reached America. I imagine that Anthony & Dora's family in Ohio probably know though.
It's getting late here. I will send more images tomorrow after work.
Cheri
From Ronny Bodine (May 9, 2019):
From Summit County, Ohio Marriage Records:
Anthony Bodine, of Akron, rubber worker, aged 28 on 19 June 1908, born in Bisby, Sweden, son of Anthony Bodine & Anna Ackerman AND Dora Smith, of Akron, aged 26 on 27 Dec 1907, born in Stirling, Ohio, daughter of Thomas J. Smith & Mary Fittler, were married on 11 June 1908 by E. R. Willard, Minister of the Gospel.
From Ohio Federal Census Records:
1900 (15 June) Naugatuck, New Haven Co.: Anthony BODINE Jun 1880 Sweden single Laborer-Rubber Worker, immigrated 1892.
1910 (16 April) Akron, Summit Co.: Anthony BODINE 26 Sweden Tire Builder-Diamond Rubber Co., Dora 28 OH wife, Blanche 5/12 OH dau. Married 2 years, 1 child born/1 living. Anthony immigrated in 1895 and is naturalized.
1920 (13 Jan) Akron, Summit Co.: Jeff M. SMITH 61 OH Laborer-Drill Shop, Mary E. 61 NY wife; Dora BODINE 38 OH widowed, Blanche A. 10 OH gdau, Dorie May 5 OH g dau.
1930 (19 April) Cuyahoga Falls, Summit Co.: Dora BODINE 48 OH widowed Book Keeper-Wholesale Coffee Co., Doris 15 OH dau; Jacob HILLEGAS 23 OH married@23 son-in-law Truck Driver-Coal & Ice Co., Blanche 25 OH dau married@20.
1940 (23 April) Cuyahoga Falls, Summit Co.: Dora BODINE 58 OH, Doris 25 OH Book Keeper-Rubber Industry.
From Ohio Death Records:
Anthony J. Bodine died 30 April 1916 in Summit County.
Dora Bodine, widow, died 26 Aug 1960 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, aged 78.
Obituary, The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal of Sunday, 28 Aug 1960.
Cuyahoga Falls---Mrs. Dora Bodine, a resident here 33 yerars, died Friday at her home, 1728 Nineteenth st. She was a native of Sterling, O., who lived in Akron some 30 years before moving here. Death followed an illness of about a month. Mrs. Bodine leaves two daughters, Doris Bodine and Mrs. Blanche Hillegas of Cuyahoga Falls; one grandchild and two great-grandchildren. Dr. Harry D. Rose will conduct services at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Akron's Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Peace Cemetery. The Chapel will be open to Callers after 7 tonight.
Burials in Mount Peace Cemetery, Akron, Summit County, Ohio.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 182693537)
BODINE TONY J. 1880---1916 DORA S. 1881---1960 DORIS MAE 1944---1992