Notes for: Joseph Bodine
This information comes from the 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Bordentown Township in Burlington County, New Jersey (roll 443, p. 138 and roll 685, p. 748).
There was also a woman named "Matilda" living with the family at the time of the 1860 Census. Her last name was not listed which means it might have been Bodine. She could therefore be Joseph's sister.
From Ronny Bodine:
There is no direct evidence that Joseph Bodine was the son of Thomas Bodine. However, in 1830, Thomas Bodine's household included 2 boys aged 5-9, one of whom was his son James. This Joseph may be the other son, being the namesake of Thomas's father. By 1840, he was 18 or 19 and no longer living with his parents. In 1850, Joseph Bodine, age 29, a carpenter, was living with his family in Bordentown, Burlington County. His household included Catharine McCue, 21, who would be Eleanor's sister. Joseph Bodine was a member of the Bordentown Common Council 1855-1856. At the births of his children Edward in 1858 and Ellen in 1863, his occupation was noted as hotel proprietor. In 1860, the family lived in Bordentown where Joseph reported his occupation as a carpenter, By 1870, the family had relocated to New Brunswick, Middlesex County where Joseph Bordine was now a hotel keeper. Joseph and Ellen Bodine still lived in New Brunswick in 1880. Joseph Bodine, aged over 60, was recorded in the 1895 New Jersey State Census as a resident of New Brunswick. In 1910, Joseph Bodine, age 88 and Eleanor Bodine, age 89, lived with their widowed daughter, Emily Colman in Montclair. Joseph reported that in 58 years of marriage the couple had had 8 children of whom 5 were then living.
First Methodist Church, Bordentown, Marriage Records:
10 Nov 1846: Mr. Joseph Bodine to Miss Ellen McCue, both of Bordentown.
The family of Joseph and Ellen Bodine is described in detail in a deed of 25 Jan 1884: William J. Knox and wife Kate, a residuary legatee of the will of Emily Pancoast, decd., and James P. Bodine, another residuary legatee, also a brother of Samuel P. Bodine, decd, Joseph Bodine and Ellen, his wife, the father and mother of Samuel P. Bodine, decd., Humphrey A. Bodine and Emma A., his wife, Henry A. Bodine, Edward M. Bodine, Emily P. Bodine, Kate M. Bodine and Ellin Bodine, the other brothers and sisters of the said Samuel P. Bodine, decd., of the City of New Brunswick, Middlesex County and William Buntig, of Bordentown, Burlington County, land in Burlington County devised by the will of Emily Pancoast to Samuel P. Bodine, decd. (Burlington Co. deeds, I-11: 131, recorded 6 April 1886).
Obituary, The New York Tribune of 25 June 1912.
JOSEPH BODINE, ninety-one years old, is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Emily P. Colman, No. 204 Claremont avenue, Montclair. His wife, who survives him, is ninety-one years old. They were married seventy years ago.
Obituary, New York Herald of 25 June 1912.
Mr. Joseph Bodine, ninety-one years old, died Sunday of general debility at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Emily P. Colman, No. 204 Claremont avenue, Montclair, N.J. Mr. Bodine was never ill in his life until a few months ago. A widow, also ninety-one years old, to whom he was married seventy years ago, two sons and three daughters survive.
Obituary, The New York Times of 17 Oct 1913.
MONTCLAIR, N.J., Oct. 16.--Mrs. Eleanor H. Bodine, 93 years old, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emily P. Coleman, 204 Claremont Avenue. Mrs. Bodine was born in Imlaystown, N.J. She spent most of her life in Bordentown, and was a resident there at the time that King Joseph Bonaparte and Prince Lucien Murat were living in the town. Mrs. Bodine, then a little girl, was a favorite of Bonaparte and Prince Lucien, as well as the latter's wife, Princess Caroline. Mrs. Bodine moved to Montclair twenty years ago, and became a member of the First Congregational Church. Three sons and two daughters survive her.
Funeral notice, The New York Times of 17 Oct 1913.
BODINE---At Montclair, N.J., Oct. 15, 1913, Eleanor M., widow of Joseph Bodine, in her 93d year. Funeral services from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Emily P. Colman, 204 Clairmont Av., Montclair, N.J., on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 3 P.M.