Notes for: Mahlon Dee Bodine

Mahlon and Kate are buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Covington, Indiana. The picture below was provided by Lesa Epperson.

Gravestone

The 1880 Census of Wabash, Fountain Co., IN lists a son named Robbert Bodine for Wallas and Bell Bodine. Robbert was five months old. This must be a nickname for Mahlon or something is wrong here.

From Ronny Bodine:

From Indiana Marriage Records: Mahlon Dee Bodine and Kathryn Elizabeth Dehaven were married 12 Sept 1906 in Fountain County.

Mahlon Bodine lived April 1930 in Troy, Fountain County, Indiana with his wife, 3 daughters and son-in-law, Floyd Hovermale.

Obituary, Crawfordsville Journal-Review (Crawfordsville, Ind.) of 3 April 1970.
Mahlon Dee Bodine, 90, Rt. 2, Veedersburg, died unexpectedly at 11 a.m. Thursday in his home. Mr. Bodine spent his life farming in the Covington vicinity and retired in 1964. He had been in poor health for the past 5 years. Mr. Bodine was born on March 21, 1880, to Lew Wallace and Arabella Grimes Bodine in Wabash Township in Fountain County. In 1906 he married Kate DeHaven. Mr. Bodine's wife and one brother preceded him in death. Survivors include 3 daughters, Mrs. Edith Auter, Covington; Mrs. Mildred Hoovermale, Rt. 2, Veedersburg and Mrs. Dorothy Rhodes, Battle Ground; one brother, Richard L. Bodine, Covington; 11 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Services will be held in the Hegg Funeral Home at Covington at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with Rev. E. E. McConnell officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Burials in Mount Hope Cemetery, Covington, Fountain County, indiana.
(Find A Grave Memorial # 19586707)
BODINE Mahlon D. 1880-1970 Kate E. 1884-1936