Notes for: Emma Melvina Bodine
I had thought that this "Emmet" might actually be an "Emma" according to copied information I have of the 1860 Census. This was proved true when I got a copy of this family's Bible. The person I had here as "Emmet" was actually Emma Melvina.
The Bible did not have a year for her birth year, just a day, September 26. I am guessing that the year was 1847 since she was two years old at the time of the 1850 Mercer County, NJ Census. Those censuses are usually in the summer. Emma would have still been two years old in the summer of 1850. Besides this, her sister, Anna Isabel, was born in 1848 (November 16); so both she and Anna Isabel could not have been born in the same year based on their birth dates.
I bet this is the Emma M. Bodine buried in Mercer Cemetery (Trenton) on March 3, 1932.
From Ronny Bodine:
Emma Bodine was living 1870-1930 in Trenton, Mercer County. In 1870-1880 she worked as a teacher in Trenton. The Trenton Evening News of 12 June 1906 reported that Miss Emma M. Bodine, principal of the Columbus School in Trenton, asked to be relieved of her duties at the end of the current school year, which was approved, and after 39 years of service she would be retired. She was still living April 1930, now aged 83, in Trenton, with her younger sister Elizabeth. She never married. She was buried in Mercer Cemetery, Trenton.
Obituary, Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, N.J.) of 1 March 1932.
Word has been received here of the death yesterday of Miss Emma M. Bodine, former Trenton school teacher, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Rhoda Ward, Miln Street, Cranford, N.J., after a short illness. She was 85 years old. Miss Bodine taught for many years at the old High School, then suated on Mercer Street. She was a daughter of the late Jesse and Maria Mott Bodine. Her father was for many years a Justice of the Peace. In addition to her niece, one sister, Miss L. Virginia Bodine, survives. Last November Miss Bodine removed from her home, 1118 Stuyvesant Avenue, to take up residence with her niece. The family lived for a number of years on East Front Street before moving to the western section of the city. The funeral will be held from the Stuyvesant Avenue address Thursday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock. Following services, interment will be in Mercer Cemetery, under direction of Gray, Inc. of Cranford.