Notes for: Lawson Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

As Losson Bodine, he enlisted on 10 Aug 1861 at Bowling Green, KY as a Private in Company A, 6th Kentucky Infantry. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and was disabled/ He was mustered out 3 Sept 1862, but afterwards enlisted in a Mississippi regiment and served to the end of the war.

From Kentucky Federal Census Records:
1900 (8 June) Chaplin, Nelson Co.: Amantha IRVIN Sept 1824 KY widowed farmer, Nellie D. Dec 1883 KY gdau, Marion F. March 1887 KY gson, James B. April 1889 KY gson, Lawson BODINE March 1846 brother farm laborer.

Obituary, The Kentucky Standard (Bardstown, KY) of Thursday, 24 Sept 1903.
Mr. Lawson Bodine died suddenly Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Isaac Irvine, at Chaplin. Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Bodine had been at work digging potatoes during the day and had returned to the house and just reached the porch when he fell dead. He was aged 62 years and was unmarried. Deceased was a carpenter by trade and was well known in Bardstown and throughout the county, where he had followed his occupation.

Lawson Bodine was buried in Chaplin Fork Baptist Cemetery, Chaplin, Kentucky.