Notes for: Susan ("Susie") Jane Bodine

From: Karl Bodine [kbodine at networld.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
To: Dave Bodine
Subject: Hubert Belyeu

...My name is Karl Bodine. Hubert [Belyeu] was married to Lottie Alloy Rose. Her mother was Susan Jane Bodine.
I am trying to find the information on all the children of Joseph Hardy Rose and Susan Jane Bodine. They had 12 children...

Thanks for any help you can give me - Karl

From Ronny Bodine:

The Rose family was living 1900 in Leon County engaged in farming. In 7 years of marriage, Susie reported she had borne 4 children, all then living. In 1910-1920, the family lived in Coleman County and in 1910 now reported 9 children, all living. By April 1930, Susie Rose was widowed and living in Coleman County with four of her children. The death of Joseph Rose was recorded in Coleman County under the name Joe H. Rose and that of Susan Rose in Taylor County as Susie Rose. Susan Rose was buried in Midway Cemetery, near Goldsboro, Coleman County, Texas.

Obituary, the "Abilene Reporter-News" of 10 Aug 1964.

TUSCOLA---Funeral for Mrs. Susie Jane Rose, 87, of Goldsboro, was to be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in First Baptist Church in Lawn with burial in Midway community's cemetery.

Mrs. Rose died at 12:15 p.m. Sunday in St. Ann Hospital in Abilene after a four-month illness.

She had been a resident of Goldsboro since 1918. Born March 15, 1877 in Louisiana, she married Joseph Hardy Rose in 1892 in Leon County. The couple came to Callahan County in 1906.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. E. E. Baker of Coahoma, Mrs. John Winn and Mrs. Tip Russell of Abilene, Mrs. Hubert Belyeer of Odessa and Mrs. Ray McKinney of Goldsboro; five sons, Hardy and Bonnie of Novice, Verner of Cross Plaines, Orville of Dallas and J. B. of Lawn; a brother, Abner Bodine of Norman, Ark.; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Children: Lara (Aug 1894), James Doyle (Oct 1895), Ruby (Oct 1897), Carlton (June 1899), Bonnie (son, c1902), Harriet (c1903), Gladys (c1905), Fern (c1907), Verner (1909), Hardy (c1911), Orval (c1915), J. B. (c1916).