Notes for: Augustus V. Bodine
I don't have positive proof, but I am going to assume that this "Augustus Bodine" is the the "A. V. Bodine" mentioned in the 1880 Census of Buckingham, Bucks Co., PA. He is living very close to Jones Bodine in that census (only two houses away). That "A. V. Bodine" has a wife Martha J. Both are 35 and born in PA. Their parents are born in PA, too. He is a "lime burner." They have one son Arthur H. Bodine (5, PA, PA) and two daughters, Ella Malony (15, PA, PA, PA) and Clara Malony (13, PA, PA, PA). These must be his step-daughters.
A. V. BODINE..........Self.....M.....Male.....W.....35.....PA.....Lime Burner.........PA..........PA
Martha J. BODINE....Wife....M.....Female..W.....35....PA.................................PA..........PA
Arthur H. BODINE....Son......S.....Male......W.......5....PA.................................PA..........PA
Ella MALONY...........Dau.....S.....Female...W.....15....PA.................................PA..........PA
Clara MALONY........Dau.....S.....Female...W.....13....PA.................................PA..........PA
Here's a message I found on the Internet. This seems to show that Martha Molony, the widow of James Molony married Augustus V. Bodine. So Ella and Clara would be Augustus's step-daughters.
Bucks County Genealogy Project Court Record Board
Molony, James
Posted By: Terry
Date: July 2 2004
Abstract-File # 9810. James Molony, Buckingham Twp. (Mar 8,1869) Children Ella Mary and Clara Elizabeth, under 14 (petition by their mother Martha). Andrew J. Larue appointed. (Feb 19,1876) Children Ella Mary and Clara Elizabeth, under 14 (petition by their mother Martha, now married to Augustus V. Bodine). Their guardian Andrew J. Larue is deceased. Cress Fell appointed guardian.
From Ronny Bodine:
Augustus Bodine was living 1880 (as A. V. Bodine) in Buckingham Township and employed as a limeburner. In 1900 he was employed as a house painter in Buckingham Township. His wife, Martha, reported in 1900 that in 27 years of marriage she had borne 4 children of who 2 were then living. Martha had been married previously and had borne 2 daughters, Ella and Clara. He was buried in Doylestown Cemetery, Bucks County. The death of Martha Bodine at the home of her daughter Clara in Warrington was reported in the "Bucks County Intelligencer" of 12 Dec 1918.
Obituary, The Bucks County Intelligencer of 9 March 1916.
Augustus V. Bodine died at the home of his son, Arthur H. Bodine, of 686 Stuyvesant avenue, Trenton, N. J., after a month's illness of grip followed by pneumonia and inflammation of the stomach. Mr. Bodine was the son of Jonas Bodine, and was born in 1844 in Centerville, Buckingham township. His parents moved to Furlong, then known as Bushington, when he was a small boy. He lived there all of his life, except about three years, when at the age of eighteen he went to Philadelphia to learn his trade as carriage trimmer, which he followed for several years, giving it up to take charge and run what is known as the Charles Williams lime quarries at Centreville which he ran for about five years. He then went with Anthony Moore, of Buckingham Valley, and took up house painting, which he worked at up until the last two or three years of his life. He was always quite a poultry fancier, having a large number of different breeds. On the 11th of May, 1871, he was married to Martha J. Molony, widow of James Molony, of Furlong, whose maiden name was Martha J. Morgan, daughter of Miles and Charity Morgan, of Jamison's Corner. In 1876 revival meetings were held at the Bushington Baptist Church by the Rev. Clemens Frame, Rev. Hoffnicle and Rev. Larison. Mr. Bodine was converted at this time and was baptized in a pond on the Benjamin Rogers farm, near Furlong, at a time when the ice had to be broken. He lived a noble Christian life, and was a faithful church worker ever since. He was a deacon of the church for thirty years, and superintendent of the Furlong Sunday school for the same period, having just resigned that position on November 1, 1915. The flourishing condition of the Sunday school of which he was superintendent is the result of his patient and untiring labor. He leaves a widow, his son, Arthur, and wife and two grandchildren; three brothers, George, of Wrightstown; Scott, of Lambertville, N. J., and Lorenza, of Berlin, N. J.; two sisters, Sarah, wife of George Slack, of Philadelphia, and Cynthia, wife of George Cotter, of Atlantic City, to mourn his death. He was buried in the Doylestown cemetery February 2d. The bearers were from among his old friends in Furlong and vicinity.
Burials in Doylestown Cemetery, Doylestown, Bucks County.
(Find A Grave Memorial # 70618002)
Augustus V. Bodine 1844-1916 His Wife Martha J. Bodine 1945-1918