The following biography comes from chapter L of "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: BORORGH OF HUGHSVILLE, AND WOLF (INCLUDING PICTURE ROCKS), SHREWSBURY, AND PENN TOWNSHIPS" in Lycoming County, PA.
CORNELIUS BODINE was descended from Huguenots who settled in New Jersey and New York. He was born in 1757, and settled in the vicinity of Hughesville. He married Margaret Sutphen, and with her migrated to Lycoming county in 1802. They subsequently settled in Seneca county, New York, where Mr. Bodine died on June 12, 1820, and Mrs. Bodine, on November 15, 1824. Their children were Charles, Isaac, Peter, John, Gilbert, George, Abraham, and Cornelius. Abraham was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and was twice married; his first wife was Mercy Paxon, and to this union were born five children: John; Charles; George; Margaret, and Elizabeth; his second wife was Barbara Cruze, by whom he had one son, Russell. Charles Bodine, son of Abraham Bodine, was a merchant and one of the most prominent and enterprising men of Hughesville during his life. He married Maria Christman, and to them were born five children: Clinton, deceased; C. Christman, deceased; De Witt; Milton, and Mary, who is deceased. Charles Bodine died in 1850, and his wife, February 26,1880.
Abraham's daughter, Elizabeth McConnell, lists her father as born in NJ and her mother in PA. This is in the 1880 Census of Richmond, McHenry Co., IL. Elizabeth's husband's parents were born in Prussia.
Abraham Bodine did not move to the Lake Country of New York with his father, but remained on the West Branch of the Susquehanna near Muncy, Pennsylvania ("History of the West Branch Valley," p. 523).
He and Barbara Cruze appear to have lived in a house that is now called the Bodine House in Muncy, Pennsylvania. It may have just been Barbara who lived there since she appears to have moved in in 1863. That would be the year after Abraham died. It is now a bed & breakfast (see www.bodinehouse.com).
An article on Abraham's grandson, DeWitt Bodine, says Abraham was a shopkeeper. See DeWitt's Notes page.
Here is a message I received the present owners:
Subject: Re: Bodine House History
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000
From: "Bodine House" (bodine@pcspower.net)
Dave Bodine:
The Bodine House B & B got it's name because there were, reportedly 6 or 7 generations of Bodine relatives that lived here in the house tat we purchased in 1978. Most weren't named Bodine however, because the house was passed down thru daughters, not sons. The first Bodine to live here was Barbara Bodine who came circa 1863 from somewhere in northern Pa. There is a town named "Bodines" north of here along state rt. 14.
When we decided to open a B & B around 1983, we looked for a name and settled on Bodine, because our name is Smith, and the first owner of the house was a Mr. Gray. So we didn't want it to be called the "Smith House" or the "Gray House". Bodine sounded like a very melodious name, so that is what we picked.
David Smith
The next message came from Robert Bodine Reuther, a descendant of those who last lived in the "Bodine House":
Subject: RE: Bodine House
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001
From: "Robert B. Reuther" (bobreuther@adelphia.net)
Dave,
I know the people who own the B&B. My parents know them fairly well (Muncy is a small town, 2000 people in the borough). I even stayed there once about 3 years ago during my 30th high school class reunion with my wife and stepdaughter... if "Barbara" first lived there in 1863, then I am pretty sure that was Barbara Cruze Bodine. My mother knows that her grandfather, Charles Hawley Bodine, raised his family there. That is, her father, Murray was raised with his two sisters there. My mother also says that Charles was raised by his grandfather and grandmother, Abraham and Barbara (Cruze) Bodine after his father, Russel, died at a relatively early age (late 30s?). Don't know what happened to Russel's mother, Lucretia. I am going to try to get tombstone information the next time I am in Muncy.
Thus, it seems likely that Abraham and Barbara owned the house. When Charles and Annie died, my great aunt, Fannie Hawley Bodine Dunlap, lived there until she died. After she died, it was passed to one of her daughters, Helen, until she remarried in 1975 to Homer Opp, at which time she sold the house and moved in with her new husband...
Bob
Here is a message from the Bodine Family Forum that probably mentions this Abraham Bodine, but it is not for sure:
Author: Jeffrey & Rhoda Phillips
Date: 29 Mar 2001 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: Wisner
Classification: Deed
DEED Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court August Term 1836, pages 311-312 Report of the Partition or valuation of the Real Estate of Benoni Wisner decd, made Sheriff fees $4.225, Purons fees $12.00, clerk paid $2.625. Inquisition indented and taken at the dwelling house of Agnes Wisner lat of Penn Township in Lycoming County deceased, State of Pennsylvania and formerly of Benoni Weisner deceased husband of the said Agnes on Saturday the Twentieth day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 1836. Before Thomas W. Lloyd esqr High Sheriff of the said county of Lycoming by virtue of a Writ of Partition or valuation to him directed and to this Inquisition annexed by the oath and affirmation of John G Ephlin, Thomas Ellis Esqr, William Miller, Samuel Kaller, Henry Ulsh, Richard Woodley, Gersham Biddle, Abraham Bodine, Jacob France, James Johnston, Jacob Shoemaker, and Evan Thomas, Twelve free honest and lawful men of his Bailiwick who on their oath affirm motion of one said respectfully do say that on the day and year aforesaid they went to and upon the lands and tenements of which Benoni Weisner in said writ mentioned died seized and then and there did find that the same Lands and Tennements could not be parted and divided to and among all the children and heirs in the said writ named without prejudice to on spoiling of the whole thereof. And therefore the inquest oforesaid on their oaths and affirmations aforesaid have valued and appraised the same at the sum of one thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars lawful money of the United States at and for which sume of one thousand five hundred seventy five dollars lawful money aforesaid the Inquest aforesaid upon their oaths and affirmations aforesaid do value and appraise the same in testimony whereof as well the said Sheriff as the Inquest oforesaid have to this Inquisition interchangeably sat their hands and seals dated the day and year above written. Thos W Lloyd Sheriff, John G Ephlin, Thos Ellis, W. Miller, Samuel Kahler, Henry Ulsh, Richard Woodley, Gersham Biddle, Abraham Bodine, Jacob France, James D Johnson, Jacob Shoemaker, Evan Thomas. To the Hon. Judge within named I do hereby certify that by virtue of this writ to me directed I took with me twelve free honest and lawful men of my Bailiwick and went upon the Lands and premises therein mentioned and there by their oaths and affirmations finding the same could not be parted and divided to and among the parties in the said writ named without prejudice to and spoiling of the whole have valued and appraised the same as by the written writ I am comanded as by the Schedule here unto annexed more fully appraise So ansers Thomas W Lloyd, Sheriff. Sept. 3, 1836 Report read and confirmed misc. The court grant a rule on all the heirs of Benoni Wisner decd to come into court on the first day of next term to accept or refuse to take the within described Real Estate of the said decd at the appraised valuation and direct that notice be given in one newspaper of this county and also one newspaper at Harrisburg and to have three insersions the last insertion to be sixty days before the next term. Emit Rule by the court Joseph Grafius, clk
Joan Best sent me a couple of deeds that involved Abraham Bodine. I think they are from Columbia Co., PA. The first is dated April 15, 1831 (Vol. G. pp. 697-698). It is between Rebecca Wooliver (widow of Abraham Wooliver) and George Woodley & wife, the part of the first part, and Abraham Bodine, the party of the second part. The land of Abraham Wooliver is conveyed to Abraham Bodine for one dollar. This land is about 105 acres and borders that of Ezra Eves. These people are not necessarily related to Abraham Bodine. Maybe they owed him some money.
Then, on April 6, 1839, Abraham Bodine and Barbara his wife sell the same property for $400 to an Edward Carence/Covenee. (His last name is difficult to read.) This deed is in Book 12, pp. 258-259.
There isn't much in the way of genealogical information in these deeds. Abraham Wooliver died in Mount Pleasant Township, Columbia Co., PA. His will was dated October 4, 1827 at Danville. In the first deed, Abraham Bodine is listed as being from Muncy Creek Twp., Lycoming Co., PA. In the second deed, he is listed as being from Wolf Twp., Lycoming Co.
This is from the Ancestry.com message boards:
Abm. Bodine m. Barbara Crouse
Author: Karen Ipock
Date: 20 Feb 2006
Surnames: Bodine, Crouse
Classification: Query
Married at the borough of Muncy, March 2, 1828, Abm. Bodine to Miss Barbara Crouse, all of Muncy thp. Witnesses: Eli Rupez and wife, Dr. Geo. Wood and Miss Bodine. From "The Marriage Docket Of S.E. Schuyler, 1827-1833, Muncy, PA" Karen (volunteer)
From Ronny Bodine (Dec. 24, 2021):
Married at the borough of Muncy, March 2, 1828, Abm. Bodine to Miss Barbara Crouse, all of Muncy thp. Witnesses: Eli Rupez and wife, Dr. Geo. Wood and Miss Bodine. From "The Marriage Docket Of S.E. Schuyler, 1827-1833, Muncy, PA
1850 (3 Sept) Wolf Twp., Lycoming Co.: Abraham BODINE 71 NJ Farmer, Barbara 52 PA, Russell 22 PA Clerk, Margaret McMINA 13 PA.
1860 (4 June) Wolf Twp., Lycoming Co.: Abraham BODINE 80 NJ Farmer, Barbara 62 PA, Mary RUSSEL 75 PA, Mary C. HENRY 16 PA Servant, Martha E. HENRY 12 PA Servant, Benjamine ARTLEY 20 PA Servant.
1870 (3 July) Muncy Borough., Lycoming Co.: Barbara BODINE 72 PA Keeps House, Emma HENRY 21 PA Clerk, Charles H. (BODINE) 17 PA.
1880 (4 June) Muncy Twp., Lycoming Co.: Barbara BODINE 79 PA, Charles H. 28 PA gson Laborer, Annie 22 PA gdau.
From History of the Branch of the Bodine Family Founded by Cornelius Bodine, by E. P. Bodine, Lodi, NY, 1897.
p. 9. Abraham Bodine married, first, Mercy Paxon, by whom he had five children: John, Elizabeth, Charles, Margaret and George. he married secondly, Barbara Cruze, by whom he had one child: Russell. He [Abraham] died near Hughesville, Pa., December 23, 1862.
Burials in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 43399442)
ABRAHAM BODINE Died December 25, 1862 Aged 83 Years & 4 Months