Notes for: Martin Bodine
His name might have been John Martin Bodine since he is called Martin Bodine, Sr. The only son he had with the name Martin appears to be John Martin Bodine.
In the Death Records of Monroe County, Missouri, there is a Martin Bodine mentioned. I am pretty sure that record refers to this Martin. The info on the death record says he died February 21, 1856 of pneumonia and liver infection. He was born in Nelson County, Kentucky and had emigrated 17 years earlier. Now that I see he has a daughter named Mary "Thixton" Bodine, this practically seals this conclusion. Martin had a sister who married a Thixton.
LDS info says he was born, died, and buried in Boone County, Missouri. LDS gave his children's names saying that all were born in Boone, Kentucky (sic?).
Ovelia Sheffield has her grandmother's family Bible (Mary Leta Bodine) that has Martin's death date in it. She believes that it says December 27, 1856; however, the writing is very faint. Ovelia feels that the February 21 date is probably correct.
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1850, Martin Bodine, a farmer, lived with his family in Monroe County, Missouri. In 1860, Telitha Bodine, now widowed, lived with her four children in Paris. On 21 Nov 1862, in Paris, Monroe County, Talitha C. Bodine married William H. Dulany. In 1870, William Dulany lived in Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri with his wife, Francis, who was clearly Talitha as their household included Mary and Ashby Bodine.
The will of Martin Bodine Sr. of 17 Feb 1856 was proved 4 March 1856 and names his wife Taletha C. Bodine and refers only to "children." Executors were Isaac A. Bodine and John A. Snell. (Monroe County Wills, Book B, 1850-56).Martin and Margaret (Davis) Bodine are named as the parents of John Martin Bodine in his 1911 Missouri death certificate.
The marriage record of Martin Bodine to Margaret Davis has not yet been found. This couple were named as the parents of John Martin Bodine born in 1840 in Monroe County and as there was no other Martin Bodine, born in Kentucky, who lived in Monroe County who could have been the father, it seems certain that this was a previously unattested marriage and Margaret Davis Bodine, having borne her child in 1840 may have died in childbirth or soon after, paving the way for Martin Bodine to remarry in 1842. The 1840 Monroe County census records Martin Bodine aged 30 to 40 and a female, aged 15-20. The child, John Martin Bodine, was born in November 1840, after the census was taken.
*End of info from Ronny.
From: Connie Abel [mailto:cabel at columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Subject: RE: correction to webpage
Hello again,
Thank you for your quick response!
When I was looking last night, I had only seen one little page from your website; this morning I found the rest of it. Wow. I cannot begin to imagine the hours of work it represents.
I believe Lorena Bodine died in Decatur, Illinois, but I am not sure. I believe Helen Bodine died in Jefferson City, Missouri sometime in the early 1970's. My husband and I visited her in her home when our oldest child was a baby, which would have been the summer of 1969, and she died a little while after that.
I have a very vague memory of my grandmother mentioning “Baby Ruth”, which makes me wonder if she might have died very young. The only siblings I heard of consistently were my father's Aunt Lorena and Aunt Helen, whom I knew (there was never a reference to an “Aunt Ruth”), and Uncle Terry, named for my great grandmother Mary Ella Terry, and whose name my father and brother continued. Uncle Terry died before I was born.
I have quite a bit of information on my mother's side of the family, and in 1974, my father put together a few pages about the Newkirk/Bodine side for the family. I learned a little before her passing that my cousin, Ovelia Mae (Newkirk) Sheffield, was interested in genealogy and had done some research. I think she mentioned that she had the family Bible. We corresponded a little in the last few years of her life; we had only met briefly a time or two when I was small. The last I had heard, her brother William was living in Chicago.
The pages my father assembled are largely about the family of Talitha C. Woods, who had eleven brothers and sisters, showing the descent from Adam Loftus, “Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland…born at Swineshead in Yorkshire in 1534.” If any of this information would be helpful to you, please let me know. The information covers several pages and would probably best be mailed to you. Most of the information regarding dates which my father gave were for marriages-no dates of birth or death.
Here is the information I have regarding the descendants of Talitha:
Talitha C. Woods married first Martin Bodine December 27, 1842, and had children Robert, Katie, Mary T., William A., and Ashby Bodine. Talitha Woods Bodine married William H. Dulaney and had one son James G. Dulaney.
William A. Bodine married Mary Ella Terry and had children Mary Leta, Ruth, Terry A., Lorena and Helen.
Mary Leta Bodine married William Milo Newkirk and had children William Bodine, and Terry Franklin.
Terry Franklin Newkirk married Betty Jo Stevens on August 9, 1942, and had children Terry Franklin, Jr., Marc Stevens, and Connie Maria.
Here is some information that you may find of interest from the preface to the material my dad provided:
My mother, Mary Leta Bodine Newkirk, often mentioned her Grandma Dulaney whom she would visit in the summer and at whose house she attended many parties. This was the house in Hannibal, Missouri, that Aunt Helen describes as a “mansion”, and the house and grounds covered a city block. Grandma Dulaney's maiden name was Talitha Woods. She was a direct descendant of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin and Chancellor of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of Britain. Talitha Woods first married Martin Bodine and they had a son, William Bodine, my mother's father. Martin Bodine apparently died young and Talitha then married William H. Dulaney. It is said that Talitha was wealthy and that William Dulaney used this money to build a lumber business which further prospered; they were considered to be millionaires. The Dulaney's [sic] gave the house in which I was born in Moberly, Missouri to my Grandmother Bodine. (Her husband, Talitha's son, was considered to be a poor business man.) We lived in this house until I was eight years old as my mother took care of her mother who was an invalid for 22 years. Of the Dulaney estate, only $2000 was inherited by my mother. The majority of the estate passed to William Dulaney's children by a previous wife. My great grandmother and William Dulaney were married for over 50 years. After she died, he built a big library at Paris, Missouri, in memory of his first wife in the town where my great grandmother and her children were born, using the money he inherited from my great grandmother! William Woods College in Missouri was founded by Talitha's Woods' brother, William Woods. He gave the money to keep it going and they still have Dulaney and Woods scholarships. [signed] Terry F. Newkirk December 24, 1974.
I have a few very early pictures of the family, given to me by my great aunt Helen. As I recall, one is of my great grandmother, Mary Ella Terry, and one may be of my great-great grandmother, Talitha C. Woods.
One question occurs to me that perhaps you could answer: how did the Bodines in your branch pronounce their last name? Long “i” or short “ee”?
Thank you for all of your good work on your website!
Connie