Notes for: Lydia (Liddy) A. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
She was Liddy, aged 10 in 1860.
1880 Fayette, Fayette Co., IA: Patrick H. Carr 30 IN grain buyer, Lydia A. 27 IN wife, Benjamin J. 3 son IA, Lucy BODINE 20 MN sister domestic servant.
From Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn, ed. The History of Mower County, Minnesota, Chicago, 1911, p. 601.
Patrick H. Carr, for a decade and a half the justice of the peace in Adams village, is a prominent man in his vicinity and well fitted for the office with which he has been honored by his fellow citizens. He was born in Rutland, Vt., March 8, 1851, son of John and Mary (Stanton) Carr, natives of County Mayo, Ireland. In early youth he learned the carpenters' trade and followed this at Adams and several other places. In 1883 he was in charge of a large bridge crew for Winston Bros., constractors for the Northern Pacific, at Missoula, Mont. He subsequently followed carpentering, contracting and bridge building continuously until 1895, when he was elected justice of the peace in the village of Adams. In this capacity he has served continuously, with the exception of one term, since 1895. He is also engaged successfully in the real estate and insurance business. Mr. Carr has been financier of the A. 0. U. W. for many years, with much credit. The subject of this sketch was married at Austin, November 26, 1875, to Lyda Bodine, of that city. She died February 21, 1880, at Sumner, Iowa, leaving one son, Benjamin J., born November 22, 1876. Benjamin joined the United States army in 1898 and is still in the service. During his service in the Philippines he acted in the commissary department. Patrick 11. Carr is a Democrat in politics and a Catholic in religion.
Newspaper obituary, Fayette County Leader (Fayette, Iowa) of 29 Feb 1940.
Patrick H. Carr, old and one of the last of the few remaining "Old Timers" a vital and picturesque individualist, died at Rochester, Feb. 7, 1940, aged 89 years. he was born March 7, 1851, at Rutland, Vermont, and came west with his parents to live in Illinois. [Portion omitted.] He was married in1875 to Lyda Bodine and for several years was a grain buyer at Fayette, Iowa. His wife died in 1880. They had one son, Ben, who passed away some years ago. [Portion omitted.] Mr. Carr's remains were brought to Fayette for burial Feb. 10, and interment was in the Catholic cemetery northwest of town.
From Minnesota Death Records:
Patrick Henry Carr died 7 Feb 1940 in Olmstead County.