Notes for: Jesse Evans Bodine

There is a Bible record for this family in LDS film 856856. It is on page 6 of some records concerning Robert Smith and Allied Families. To find this, go about 2/3 of the way through the film. This is a contribution by Miss Emily V. Smith who was the chairman of genealogical records for the Peter Muhlenberg Chapter of the N.S.D.A.R. It's a copying of an old account book from 1769, five family Bibles (two of which appear to be Bodine Bibles) and some other records. I guess these were found in the Woodbury Courthouse (county seat of Gloucester County, New Jersey) and at the Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia. I don't know which place the Bibles were in or if they are still there. There appears to be a Wilson and Rebecca Bodine Bible and a Bible of Wilson's son, Jesse Evans Bodine and wife Maria Mott.

The family Bible says he was 72 at the time of this death.

The Bible records below come from the Bible of Wilson L. Bodine and his wife Rebecca Baner. There is also a Bible record of their daughter Ann G. (Bodine) Crammer, and their son, Jesse Evans Bodine. Ann was married to Samuel Weeks Crammer. Jesse was married to Maria Mott. I found these records on LDS film #856856 which is a microfilm of genealogical records from eastern and western Pennsylvania. I think these records were all contributed by D.A.R. members. About 2/3 of the way through this film there are fifteen or so pages contributed by Miss Emily V. Smith. She was the Chairman of Genealogical Records for the Peter Muhlenberg Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. The title of her contribution was "Robert Smith and Allied Families." The description says, "Copies of records from an old Account Book (1769), Family Bibles (5), three dated Sillhouettes and other records found in the Woodbury Courthouse (County-Seat of Gloucester County, New Jersey) and in the Pennsylvania Historical Society (Philadelphia)." I believe these three Bibles were in the possession of Miss Smith. She at least had the Jesse Evans Bodine Bible. Wilson was Miss Smith's great-grandfather. Ann G. (Bodine) Crammer was her grandmother. Elisha Collins Smith and Frankalena Woodward (Crammer) Smith were her parents. Miss Emily V. Smith was born February 27, 1885.

Wilson L. Bodine and Rebecca Baner Family Bible

Wilson and Rebecca Baner Was Married March the 28 In the year of our Lord 1819.

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Bodine, Ann G. Was Born March the 29th In the Year of Our Lord 1820

Bodine, Eliza Was born January the 7th In the Year of Our Lord 1822

Bodine, Jesse E. Was Born February the 4th In the Year of Our Lord 1824

Bodine, Budd Was Born January the 18th In the Year of Our Lord 1827

Bodine, Rebecca Was Born October the 5th In the Year of Our Lord 1829

Bodine, John Was Born February the 29th In the Year of Our Lord 1832

Bodine, Martha Was Born September the 3rd In the Year of Our Lord 1834

Bodine, Wilson L. Was Born March 28th In the Year of Our Lord 1837

Bodine, Charlotte Was Born February the 25th In the Year of Our Lord 1840

Bodine, Sarah Isabel Was Born June 11th In the Year of Our Lord 1843

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Bodine, Martha Departed this life November the 11th In the Year of Our Lord 1835 Aged 1 year 2 months and 8 days.

Bodine, Wilson L. departed this life June 11th In the Year of Our Lord 1844, Aged 45 Years.

Bodine, Rebecca departed this life November 5th In the Year of Our Lord 1850, in the 51st year of her age.

Bodine, Wilson L. Jr. departed this life May 20th In the Year of Our Lord 1856 in the 19th Year of His age.

Bodine, Sarah Isabel departed this life March 28th 1862 in the 19th Year of her age.

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Jesse Evans Bodine & Maria Mott Family Bible

Married - On the 29th day of August 1844 - Jesse Evans Bodine and Maria daughter of Thomas and Rachel Mott.

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Bodine, Jesse Evans son of Wilson L. and Rebecca Bodine was born February 4th at Philadelphia, Pa.

Bodine, Maria Librand daughter of Thomas L. and Rachel Mott was born January 26th, 1824 at Tuckerton, New Jersey.

Bodine, Emma Melvina daughter of Jesse and Maria Bodine was born Sept. 26th at Tuckerton, New Jersey.

Bodine, Wilson son of Jesse and Maria Bodine was born at Elkridge, Pa. [someone penciled in the middle initial "C." for Wilson.]

Bodine, Anna Isabel daughter of Jesse E. and Maria Bodine was born at Trenton, N. J. November 16th 1848.

Bodine, Mary Ellen daughter of Jesse and Maria Bodine was born at Trenton, N. J. July 10th 1851

Bodine, Lizzie Virginia daughter of Jesse E. and Maria Bodine was born at Trenton, New Jersey September 18th 1853

Bodine, Minnie Leonore daughter of Jesse E. and Maria Bodine was born at Trenton, Jew Jersey April 5th 1866

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Bodine, Charles Wilson - Died on the 8th Day of April,....son of Jesse and Maria Bodine.

Bodine, Mary Ellen - February 12, 1883 Third daughter of Jesse E. and Maria Bodine, at Hillcrest N. J. (now Trenton).

Bodine, Minnie L. - February 7th, 1896 youngest daughter of Jesse E. and Maria Bodine, at Hillcrest, N. J.

Bodine, Jesse Evans - Sept. 14, 1896 at Hillcrest, N. J. (Age 72 Yrs.)

Bodine, Anna Isabel - August 14, 1905 second daughter of Jesse E. and Maria L. Bodine at Hillcrest, N. J.

Bodine, Maria L. - Widow of Jesse E. Bodine died November 1, 1914, age 90 yrs.

Bodine, Amy H. - died September 15, 1918, age 91 yrs. (Sister to Maria L. Bodine and daughter of Thomas and Rachel Mott of Tuckerton, N. J.)

Note from Dave: Amy Mott was married to Budd Stirling Bodine, Jesse's brother, and son of Wilson L. Bodine, Sr.

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Samuel Weeks Crammer and Ann G. Bodine Family Bible

Crammer, Samuel Weeks and Ann G. Bodine were married March 27th 1839

Births

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This lists eleven children of Samuel W. and Ann Crammer:

Mary E. Crammer, Feb. 5, 1840

Hannah A. Crammer, April 2, 1841

George W. D. Crammer, July 12, 1842

Wilson B. Crammer, April 7, 1844

Frankalena W. Crammer, March 11, 1846

William F. Crammer, Dec. 2, 1847

Jonathan E. Crammer, June 30, 1849

Ann Rebecca Crammer, April 2, 1851

Samuel E. Crammer, July 17, 1853

Budd S. Crammer, Nov. 21, 1855

Emily V. Crammer, Jan. 16, 1859

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From either this Bible or the Bible of Elisha C. and Frankalena W. Smith, there is a death date for Ann G. (Bodine) Crammer:

Ann G. Wife of Samuel W. Crammer Departed this life November 26th 1874. Age fifty five years Eight months and three days.

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There is more information on who the Crammers married and from two Smith Bibles that I did not add here.

From Ronny Bodine:

The Jesse Bodine family was living from 1850 in Trenton, Mercer County where Jesse was employed in 1850 as a paper maker, in 1860-1870 as an express agent, and in 1880 as a Justice of the Peace. His death was noted in the "New Jersey Law Journal," 19: 317. In 1900, Maria Bodine, now widowed, was living in Trenton with her three unmarried daughters. She reported she had borne 6 children, but only 3 were then living. In April 1910, now aged 86, Maria Bodine was still living in Trenton and reported that of her 6 children, only 2 were then living. Jesse and Maria Bodine were buried in Mercer Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer County.

His death was reported in the Trenton "Evening Times" of 14 Sept 1896.

DEATH OF SQUIRE BODINE

The Old Justice of the Peace was a Unique Trenton Character.

Jesse E. Bodine, the aged and well known justice of the peace and proprietor of the Employment Agency, at 105 East State Street, died at his home in Hillcrest last night, at midnight, after being ill for a week. The funeral will take place on Wednesday and the interment will take place at Mercer Cemetery.
Squire Bodine had the reputation of being an octogenerian, but was only seventy-two years of age at the time of his death. For years he has been a familiar figure about town and newspaper men have ofttimes "written him up." When asked for news the squire had a peculiar and amusing way of frankly regretting that '"nobody is bad anymore and there ain't no news. " He would say this in such a manner that it would seem to imply he desired petty crimes to increase, notwithstanding his religious prominence. He was a member of the State Street M. E. Church and last spring was made a local deacon.
The peace justice had been married over fifty years having wedding before attaining his majority. His Immediate relatives who survive him are Maria, his wife, Emma, Belle and Jennie, his daughters, Budd S. Bodine and John Bodine, his brothers. Emma, his eldest daughter is the principal of the Columbus school.
A week ago today this unique Trentonian was in too poor health to go to his office and remained at home, but not in bed until Wednesday, when he was obliged to take to his bed and he did not leave it again.
The aged squire had been failing in health since his fourth daughter, Minnie Bodine, a school teadier, died last winter.
Dr. Ernest Dickinson attended him in his last illness and noted that, after Wednesday, the squire's mind wandered and he could recognize no one. His death, the doctor adjudged, as formerly stated, was due to heart trouble.