Notes for: George DeWitt Bodine, Rev.
George is listed as "of Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania" at FamilySearch.
The following paragraph comes from The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: chapter XXI: Northhampton, 1722 from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions.
The Dutch Reformed church at Richborough is the child of the North and Southampton church. The mother church increasing largely in numbers, it was agreed in 1857 to erect a new church edifice at Addisville, and call an associate pastor. The new building was dedicated in April, 1859, and in January, 1860, the Reverend W. Knowlton was called to the charge. He left in the spring of 1864. [Prior to the resignation of Mr. Knowlton a movement was made for the separation of the two churches, which resulted in an application to the Classis. It was granted May 19, 1864. The Reformed church, Addisville, began its separate career with suitable services, the Revs. T. DeWitt Talmage and William Fulton officiating. At the time of organization, seventy-nine persons presented themselves for membership, former members of North and Southampton. *] In January of that year a friendly division of the church took place, the mother one retaining its corporate name, the new one assuming that of "The Reformed Dutch church at Addisville," and receiving one-half the parsonage and property at Churchville, valued at $5,350. The first consistory of the new church, chosen April 7, 1864 consisted of the following persons: Henry S. Kroesen, Sr., Gilliam Cornell, Jonathan Lefferts, and Theodore M. Vanartsdalen, elders, and Alfred Carver, Isaac Bennet, John Kroesen, and Thomas H. Hart, deacons. The first settled pastor was the Reverend G. De Witt Bodine, from the Classis of Geneva, New York, who was ordained and installed September 20, 1864. He resigned in July, 1868, and was succeeded by the Reverend Jacob Ammerman that fall.
Here is some information I got from the Internet:
Three Rivers
Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie
History From America's Most Famous Valleys
The History of Montgomery Classis, R.C.A.
by W.N.P. Dailey,
Recorder Press, Amsterdam, NY 1916
To which is added sketches of Mohawk Valley men and events of early days, the Iroquois, Palatines, Indian Missions, Tryon County, committee of Safety, Sir Wm. Johnson, Joseph Brant, Arendt Van Curler, Gen. Herkimer, Reformed Church in America, Doctrine and Progress, Revolutionary Residences, Etc.
LODI REFORMED CHURCH
...
Rev. John A. Liddell succeeded Bennett (1838-1848), during whose ministry a hundred and twenty-one new members were received. Mr. Liddell was a Glasgow graduate, an attractive and able preacher. He served the church at Cicero for a year after leaving this field, and died in 1850. After a year Rev. Garret J. Garretson was installed in September, 1849. Rev. Gustav Abeel, a Rutgers trustee for forty years, then in the Geneva church, preached the sermon, as he did also for Mr. Liddell eleven years previously. Mr. Garretson remained three years (1849-1852), and died within a couple of months after the relationship was dissolved. After an interim of a year, Rev. Geo. J. Van Neste was installed in November, 1854. Van Neste was connected with the celebrated family of that name in the Dutch Reformed church. He remained until November, 1865. During this pastorate the church numbered two hundred twenty-three members, its largest roll. One hundred and thirty-four were received while he was pastor. After several pastorates he took up the work at St. Johnsville (cf), and later was pastor at Flatbush, and Pottersville, N. J. at the latter place dying in 1898, Rev. John Addison Van Doren was next called, and accepted (New Years, 1866), but a serious illness prevented his being installed. He remained here but six months. In 1866 he became the first pastor of the Annandale, N. J. church, arid remained in that field until 1873, when he retired from the active pastorate; Rev. Isaac H. Collier from Nassau, N. Y. was installed by Geneva Classis January 29, 1867, and remained until September 25, 1869. Forty-five were added during this ministry. Leaving Lodi Mr. Collier had pastorates at Saratoga and Montville, N. J. when he entered the Presbyterian ministry; and while supplying the Oakfield, N. Y. church died, February 19, 1881. For more than a year following the close of the Collier pastorate the pulpit was supplied by Rev. Alexander McMann, who had been in the Ithaca Dutch church for seven years (1831-1837), and had gone into the Presbyterian body in 1862. He died in 1893. The next settled pastor was Rev. H. P. McAdam, who delivered an interesting address at address at the Centennial. Mr. McAdam began his work about New Year's, 1871. In the autumn of 1871 repairs upon the church were begun under the committee, S. S. Gulick, Peter Lott, P. V. W. Bodine, Voorhees Minor, and Covert Osgood. The expense incurred was $6,500. Six months later, July 14, 1872, the church was burned. Two hundred of the members and friends of the congregation at once subscribed toward a new church and the congregation began to build under the direction of the former committee of repairs, and $20,000 was spent, the new church being dedicated July 15, 1873, Rev. Wm. W. Brush of Geneva preaching the sermon. Rev. McAdam remained thro a part of 1884 when he went to the Wolcott Presbyterian church of Utica, later pastor of the Worthington (0.) Presbyterian church, and has been living retired at Saugerties since 1905. The present parsonage was built in this pastorate. His successor at Lodi was Rev. Chester P. Murray (1884-1886), a Presbyterian minister who reentered the work of that church and is now living in Cleveland O.
Rev. William H. Ballagh succeeded Murray, remaining thro 1892. Mr. Ballagh died at Palmyra, N. Y. in 1892. The next pastor was Rev. Charles F. Porter (1888-1904), an Auburn graduate who came from the Alden Presbyterian church to a sixteen year pastorate at Lodi. For several years now Mr. Porter has been connected with the New York State Library at Albany. Rev. Frederick Perkins of Bainbridge (Ga.) took up the work in 1905 and remained thro 1909, going next to St. Johnsville where he is now pastor. Succeeding him was Rev. Seth Cook who was installed in 1909 and in the Fall of 1914, going to the Dryden, N. Y. Presbyterian church. Rev. E. J. Meeker, who had served the churches of Mohawk and Glen, next took up the work in December, 1914, and is the present pastor. The Reformed church of Lodi has sent many men into the ministry, evidencing the sort of work that has been accomplished there thro the years. Among these have been Revs. Elbert Nevins, Arad Sebring, John Minor, James Wyckoff, William Cornell, Minor Swick, G. DeWitt Bodine, John V. N. Schenck, Elbert Sebring, Charles Wilson, and John Van Neste. A son of Rev. Isaac Collier, William M., after the Spanish-American war became the American Ambassador to Spain.
From Ronny Bodine:
From New York Federal Census Records:
1870 Germantown, Columbia County: Geo. D. W. Bodine 33 NY Refd. Clergyman, Jennie 29 NY, Georgiana 4 PA, Donald 3 PA.
1880 Lodi, Seneca County: Jane Bodine 39 NY widow, Georgeanna 14 PA dau, Donaldson 13 PA son.
Records of Addisville Reformed Church, Richboro, Bucks Co., Penn.
1864, 12 Nov-Mrs. Jennie D. Bodine, rcvd from First Pres. Ch. Of Ovid, NY.
1866, 17 June-Bapt. Georgiannie, born 3 Nov 1865, dau. of Rev. G. De Witt Bodine & Jeannie Donaldson Bodine.
Records of Dutch Reformed Church of Richmoro, Bucks Co., Penn.
1867, 9 Nov-Bapt. Peter Donaldson, born 12 Dec 1866, son of G. D. Bodine & Jeannie Bodine
Seneca County, NY, Wills, M: 521.
The will of G. D. W. Bodine of Lodi, Seneca County written 19 June 1879 names wife Jennie D. Bodine. Appoints wife and his brother, Peter V. N. Bodine as executors. Executors appeared in court 11 May 1880 to prove will, which was recorded 24 May 1880. Probate records Georgianna Bodine and Peter Donaldson Bodine as minors and next of kin of the deceased.
3 Oct 1900. "Sons in the Ministry"
In the pulpit Mr. Bodine was warm and tender; in the home he was always genial. His life closed here in Lodi, May 30, 1880. A few days later we were permitted to read the following: "The Rev. G. D.W. Bodine died on Monday last as peacefully and quietly as the setting of a summer sun. He was an able minister, a kind husband and father, and a jewel of a man."'
Newspaper Obituary, The Sunday Star (Crawfordsville, Ind.) of Monday (!), 2 Jan 1899.
Mrs. Jennie Bodine died suddenly on Monday afternoon at the home of her son Prof. Bodine, Main street west, of heart disease. She was found lying dead on the floor shortly after noon. All efforts to resuscitate her were in vain, death had been instantaneous. Her body was taken to Ovid, New York, the old home, for interment on Tuesday afternoon. She was 68 years of age.
George and Jennie Bodine were buried in Ovid Union Cemetery, Ovid, Seneca County, New York.