Here are a couple of pictures of Charles Ignatius Bodine. I'm not sure when they were taken. These photos were sent in by Nelva (Bodine) Chapline.
Much of the information on this line was sent to me by Nelva Bodine Chapline, the great-grandaughter of Charles Bodine. She said that "CI" had a burden for orphaned children. He and Sonora raised Edward Bodine Scott (Irene's son), Charlie Wilkie (Margaret's son), and some of the Imlay kids.
There were four young men living with them at the time of the 1880 Census of Burlingame Township in Osage County, Kansas. I wonder if these weren't workers. They were Joseph Lasure, age 23, born in Ohio; John Bolaney, age 24, born in New York; Jay Putnam, age 17, born in Kansas; and Geb P. Putnam, age 24, born in Maryland.
Here is some information from Vernon Vinzant:
Another census in case you do not have it:
Source Information: 1880, Census Place Burlingame, Osage, Kansas.
Family History Library Film, 1254391, NA Film Number, T9-0391, Page Number, 54A.
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace:
Chas. I. BODINE, Self, M, Male, W, 38, IL, Farmer & Saw Mill, KY, TN;
Eliza E. BODINE, Wife, M, Female, W, 37, IL, Keeping House, TN, TN;
Margret E. BODINE, Dau, S, Female, W, 18, IL, At Home, IL, IL;
Irena J. BODINE, Dau, S, Female, W, 16, IL, At Home, IL, IL;
William T. BODINE, Son, S, Male, W, 13, MO, At Home, IL, IL;
Annie L. BODINE, Dau, S, Female, W, 11, KS, At Home, IL, IL;
Charles F. BODINE, Son, S, Male, W, 8, IN, At Home, IL, IL;
Mary BODINE, Dau, S, Female, W, 4, KS, At Home, IL, IL;
Jesse BODINE, Son, S, Male, W, 1, KS, At Home, IL, IL;
Joseph LASURE, Other, S, Male, W, 23, OH, Farm Hand, OH, OH;
John BLANEY, Other, S, Male, W, 24, NY, Farm Hand, NY, NY;
Jay PUTNAM, Other, S, Male, W, 17, KS, Farm Hand, VT, IL;
Geo P. PUTNAM, Other, S, Male, W, 24, MD, Farm Hand, MD, MD.
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1880, Chas. I. Bodine, a farmer and saw mill operator, lived in Burlingame Township, Osage County, Missouri. In June 1900, Charles Bodine lived with his family in Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory where he engaged in farming. He reported that in 14 years of marriage to his wife Sonora, she had borne 3 children of whom 2 were living, both with them. In 1910, the now widowed Sonora Bodine lived with her two children, Lena and John, in Oklahoma City. In 1920, she lived in Boone Township, Oklahoma County with her son John Bodine and daughter and son-in-law, Lena and Thomas Anderson. In 1930, Sonora Bodine, now 77, was again the head of the household which included her daughter Lena Anderson, her husband and 2 children. Sonora (Denny) Bodine was the daughter of Davis and Caroline E. (Gillett) Denny.
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.) of 12 Feb 1904.
Indian Territory Items: Col. C. J. Bodine, a pioneer citizen of Oklahoma, died at Ardmore Wednesday. He took a claim in Greeley in 1889.
The Oklahoman of 8 Oct 1942.
Mrs. Sonora Bodine, the little grandmother of the Oklahoma City oil field, will be 90 years old Thursday. As usual, it will be a gala day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Anderson, 613 Southwest Twenty-seventh street, where she has lived the past 10 years. Fron her bed where she has been confined 16 years by injuries received from a fall, she will preside at open house from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. All of her old friends--the ones who are still here--will be out to wish her a happy birthday. "She looks forward to these gatherings more every year," Mrs. Anderson said. "She has been very excited all week." Mrs. Bodine became known as the little grandmother of the city field when the discovery well blew in practically in her front yard, Dec. 3, 1928. She sat across the road on her front porch, calmly rocking, as crews drilled the well and brought in the first gusher. She had the only telephone in the area and rival newsmen made a record sprint to her home to call the first word to the waiting world. Later, two producers were drilled on her farm, but she made the crews wait until her pears and apples were ready to gather before she let then move in. She and her husband, the late Charles Bodine, homesteaded the farm. It is seven miles southeast of Oklahoma City.