Notes for: Lydia Bodine

Thomas Bodine of Arab, Alabama has a family picture in which it appears that Lydia's right leg is missing. She has a crutch beneath the folds of her dress.

From Ronny Bodine:

From Marshall County, Alabama Marriage Records:
Henry Moon AND Lydia Bodine were married 21 Jan 1877 at Margath Bodine's by Elder C. Faris.

Elder Henry Moon was born Jan 20, 1858. He was a member at Brown's Creek Church for many years. We find no account of Elder Moon being licensed, but he was ordained (a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church) in 1904. Besides Brown's Creek, Elder Moon pastored Siloam, Zion Hill, and was associate pastor of other churches. After the Sand Mountain Association was organized in 1917, Elder Moon moved his membership to Ephesus. He died in Jan 1941. (Watts, Ethridge B. "A History of the Primitive Baptists of Alabama," vol. 1, The Christian Baptist Pub. Co., Atwood, TN, 1979, p. 179.)

In 1900, Lydia Moon reported she had borne 10 children of whom 9 were living. In 1910, she had borne 11 children of whom 10 were then living.

Obituary, local newspaper, of Wed. 20 Jan 1937.
Lydia Moon died Wed., at the age of 74 years + six months at her home in Brooksville. Survived by sons, Meldon, Berge and Virgil; daughters, Jane McWhorter, Rhoda Moon, Ester Tuttle and Ella Moon. She was buried Thursday in Salem Cemetery.

Children: Martin (c1878), Meldon (Apr 1880), Samantha (Feb 1882), Burran Burdoth (18 Mar 1884), Rhoda (21 Oct 1888), Johnny M. (30 June 1892), Virgil W. (Feb 1894), Ella (Jan 1897), Dewey M. (1 Aug 1899), Esther (1902).