Notes for: William ("Will") Stillwell Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Nelson County, Kentucky Marriage Records:
W. S. Bodine and Mary Lizzie Thomas were married 21 Feb 1900 in Bardstown by J. P. Trotter.
From Kentucky Federal Census Records:
1900 (2 June) Bloomfield, Nelson Co.: William S. BODINE June 1866 KY married 0 years Farmer, Mary L. March 1866 KY wife married 0 years, Elizabeth E. April 1844 KY mother widowed 5 children born/5 living, Eva Feb 1878 KY sister.
1910 (18 May) Nelson Co.: W. S. BODINE 44 KY Farmer married1-10 years, Elizabeth 44 KY wife married1-10 years 3 children born/3 living, Martha E. 5 KY dau, Leon 7 KY son, Clifton 9 KY son.
1930 (11 April) Bloomfield, Nelson Co.: Will S. BODINE 63 KY Farmer married@34, Mary L. 64 KY wife married@34, Kenneth 6 KY grandson.
1940 (8 April) Spencer Co.: Elijah C. BODINE 39 KY Farmer, Kate 41 KY wife, William T. 16 KY son, James L. 14 KY son, Mary A. 13 KY dau, William S. 73 KY widowed father.
From the Kentucky Death Certificate of Mary Elizabeth Bodine, wife of W. S. Bodine, born 29 March 1866 in Nelson Co., Kentucky, dau. of James R. & Martha A. (Ashby) Thomas; died 26 Aug 1936 in Spencer County; buried Chaplin. W. S. Bodine of Taylorsville, informant.
From the Kentucky Death Certificate of William Stillwell Bodine, widowed, farmer, born 1 June 1866 in Kentucky, son of Elijah & Elizabeth (Heady) Bodine; died 16 June 1949 in Taylorsville, Spencer County of colon cancer and was buried in Chaplin. Informant was Clifton Bodine.
Obituary, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) of Sat., 18 June 1949.
BODINE, William S., at his home near Taylorsville, Ky., Thursday, June 16 at 4 p.m. Survived by 2 sons, Clifton of Taylorsville and Leon of Louisville, Ky.; one daughter, Mrs. Marvin Smith, Pekin, Ind.; one brother, James L., Elreno, Okla.; also 5 grandsons, 3 granddaughters and 2 great-granddaughters. Services for Mrs. [sic] Bodine will be at Greenwell's Chapel, Taylorsville, Saturday, June 8, at 2 p.m. Interment, Chaplin Cemetery.
William and Mary Bodine were buried in Highview Cemetery, Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.