Notes for: Walter Francis Bodine

Walter Francis appears in the census of 1860 but not in 1870. County death records do not exist for that time period. Supposedly he moved to Ohio. Every year on sister Rosanah's birthday, he sent her a handkerchief. When the handkerchiefs stopped coming, Rosanah presumed her brother was dead.

As Walter Francis was not seen to be living with his mother at his grandparents' home in the census of 1870 after his father died, yet sisters Rosanah and Margaret were, it is possible he went to live with another family member. He would have been 13 in 1870.