Notes for: Sarah H. Bodine
We are not sure who this Sarah Bodine is related to.
From Ronny Bodine:
From Peoria County, Illinois Marriage Records:
Samuel Smith AND Sarah Bodine were married 5 April 1849.
1850 Peoria Co., Ill: Samuel W. SMITH 26 PA wagon maker, Sarah H. 19 NJ.
1880 Elm Twp., Allen Co., KS: Samuel W. Smith 54 PA carpenter, Sarah H. 46 NJ wife, Charles W. 20 IL son, Louisa A. 19 IL dau, Sarah A. 18 IL dau, Henry B. 17 IL son, George C. 10 IL son, Luella M. 9 IL dau.
1910 LaHarpe, Allen Co., KS: George C. SMITH 40 IL blacksmith, Loretta B. 44 OH wife, Ceola 13 KS dau, Russell 11 KS son, Lloyd 9 KS son, Sarrah 77 NJ mother.
Obituary, The Iola Register (Iola, Kansas) of 29 Oct 1886.
Died, near LaHarpe, Allen county, Kansas, Monday, Oct. 18, 1886, of erysipelus and blood poison, Samuel W. Smith, aged 62 years, 10 months and 13 days. The subject of the above, was born in Pennsylvania. At the age of three years, he with his parents removed to Ohio. From thence they removed to Peoria county, Illinois, when he was about ten years old. He was in 1849 married to Miss Sarah H. Bodine, and soon after moved to Joliette, Illinois; where he carried on the wagon and carriage business, remaining there until the spring of 1855, when he returned to Rochester, Illinois, and worked at his trade for several years; then bought a farm and lived on it until 1879, when he moved to Allen county, Kansas, settling 8 miles east of Iola. Nearly four years since he was elected as Justice of the Peace for Elm township, which office he filled acceptably up to the timeof his death. [Balance of obituary relates to his religious life and convictions and character.]