Notes for: Mary Lucille Bodine

Lucille may have been marked as "married" in the 1900 Census of Okaloma Co., OK. She was living with her Bodine family though.

From Ronny Bodine:

From Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory Marriage Records:
N. E. Butcher AND Lucile M. Bodine were married 22 May 1900.

In 1910, Nahum Butcher, a traveling salesman of books, lived in Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma with his wife, 2 children and his brothers-in-law, Orville and Arthur Bodine. In 1930, he and Lucille lived in Denver, Colorado and by 1935 they had returned to Oklahoma City where Nahum lived as a widower in April 1940. Butcher was enrolled as the University of Oklahoma's first freshman in 1893/4 and as a sophomore served as the first librarian of the University of Oklahoma's library from the fall of 1894 to the spring of 1896. He later served as superintendent of Norman Public Schools and as President of the Oklahoma Education Association. In 1942, he retired as representative of American Book Company. Then, due to World War II, at the age of 70, he went to work at Tinker Air Force Base, where he was in charge of the message center for the 12,000 employees of maintenance engineering. Mr. Butcher retired from that position at the age of 85. (Re: Sooner Magazine, Jan. 1958 & Sept. 1965).

Children: James Ellsworth (c1904), Alice Lucille (1909).