Notes for: Clara Rebecca Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Michigan Marriage Records: On 10 May 1871 in Waterford, Oakland County: James Camp, 22, born Ontario County, N.Y. married Clara Bodine, 21, born Penn.,
From Michigan Federal Census Records:
1900 (1 June) Birmingham Village, Bloomington Twp., Oakland Co.: James CAMP May 1849 NY married 29 years, Clara May 1851 PA wife married 29 years 4 children born/3 living, John Aug 1880 MI son, Mabel Sept 1886 MI dau.
1910 (26 April) Birmingham Village, Bloomington Twp., Oakland Co.: James CAMP 55 NY married1-35 years Manager-Farm, Clara 57 PA wife married1-35 years, Grace 33 MI dau, John 29 MI son, Mable 21 MI dau.
1920 (14 Jan) Bloomfield Twp., Oakland Co.: James M. CAMP 70 NY Supt-Farm, (unnamed) 65 PA wife, [in the same house:] John B. 39 MI son Foreman-Auto Factory, Bertha L. 36 IL Wife, Kathrien 7 MI dau, John B. Jr. 3 MI son.
Neither James nor Clara Camp appear in the 1930 census.
1940 Birmingham, Oakland Co.: James R. BASSETT 53 MI, Mable G. 54 MI wife, James C. 16 MI son, Clara R. CAMP 90 PA widow mother-in-law.
From the Michigan Death Certificate of James M. Camp, retired farmer, husband of Clara R. Camp, born 15 May 1853 in Victor, NY, son of William & Detsy (Carpenter) Camp, died 3 Dec 1928 in Detroit, Wayne County, buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. J. Wylie Basset informant.
From Michigan Death Records:
Clara R. Camp, dau. of John & Elizabeth (Hefley) Bodine, died 30 Dec 1951 in Birmingham, Oakland County, aged 101.
Obituary, Detroit (MI) Free Press of Mon., 31 Dec 1951.
BIRMINGHAM---Mrs. Clara R. Camp died at her home at 143 Merrill Sunday morning at the age of 101. Her daughter, Mrs. Mabel G. Bassett, said she took her mother's breakfast to the bedroom. and when she returned to pick up the dishes, Mrs. Camp was dead. Mrs. Bassett said her mother came to Birmingham when an infant. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Manley Bailey Funeral home. Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery. Three grandchildren also survive.