Notes for: Elsie Anna Bodine
From: Karen Horsley [kehorsley at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 6, 2021
I found a website with your email address when I googled “Esther J. Bodine, Montrose” in an attempt to figure out how I happen to have a tattered copy of a psalter/hymnal/catechism published by the Presbyterian Publication Committee in Philadelphia in the mid-1800's. Esther's name is written on the first page, and after viewing your website, I'm thinking she was probably the wife of Hezekiah Bodine, as he is buried in Montrose, PA.
+ M Child 1: Hezekiah Watkins Bodine, Sr.
Born: abt 1811 in New York (prob Orange Co.)
Died: Oct 1889 in prob Liberty, Susquehanna Co., PA
Buried: Oct 30 1889 at Montrose, Susquehanna Co., PA
Wife: Esther Jane Trumpour b. Jul 20 1816 d. 1881
Married: Sep 2 1841 in Montgomery, Orange Co., NY
Inside the book, various calling cards, advertisements and other small paper items are inserted between pages, but none of them contain helpful information.
Is there a way to research (without paying to subscribe to anything) the descendants of Hezekiah and Esther? I don't recall how I happen to have the book, but I wonder if it belonged to my late husband's grandmother, whose maiden name was Daisy White, as she was born “out east” “somewhere,” married to Joseph Horsley and ended up in Waterford, CA. Her sons were born in 1909 and 1911, so I am guessing she could have been their granddaughter.
Karen Horsley
Fargo, ND
From: Karen Horsley
Sent: Monday, September 6, 2021
Subject: RE: Bodine-Horsley
Interesting! Thank you! I believe the Horsleys lived in Boise before they moved to Waterford. Is this your branch of the Bodine family, or is it a different one?
My husband and I took a couple of trips to California in 2014 and 2016, and both times we visited the historical museum in Waterford, where we learned that his grandparents had been members of a Baptist church there, and we met a lady named Maryann Brush who had been a pupil in a Sunday School class taught by his Grandma Daisy when Maryann was a young girl. Daisy and her husband are buried in Modesto, I believe, but we didn't have time to visit that cemetery when we were there. J.F., incidentally, are the initials of Daisy's husband, Joseph Franz Horsley.
Thanks again. I'll click on the notes you mentioned.
Karen Horsley
From: Karen Horsley
Sent: Monday, September 6, 2021
Subject: RE: Bodine-Horsley
It is! Just one more thing, and then I will bother you no more. In reading the notes about Elsie, I discovered she died in 1926 in Stanislaus County, CA, and Waterford is in Stanislaus County. My husband's father would have been 15 at the time, and his brother, 17. I've seen the house where they lived and it would have been a very tiny place for a family with two teenage sons and a grandma! I wish I would have discovered all this before my husband passed away. He would have found it interesting.
Karen Horsley
From Ronny Bodine (March 22, 2020):
She was Elsie A. Bodine, age 10, in 1860 and Anna, age 20, in 1870, living with her parents in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
1880 Montrose, Susquehanna Co., PA: Amos WHITE 30 PA farm laborer, Elsie 30 NY wife, Bertha 5 PA dau.
1900 St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN: Amos WHITE June 1849 PA teamster-RR contractor, Elsie A. Dec 1849 NY wife, Daisy L. Jan 1881 PA dau, Bertha ANDERSON Nov 1874 PA dau div., Florence J. Feb 1898 MN gdau. Married 29 years, 3 children born/2 living.
1910 Mica Bay, Kotenai Co., ID: Amos WHITE 60 PA farming, Elsie Ann 60 NY wife.
1920 Malo, Ferry Co., WA: Amos WHITE 70 PA farmer, Anna E. 70 NY wife.
From the Idaho Death Certificate of Amos Gayethy White, farmer, married, born 26 June 1849 in Montrose, Susquehanna Co., PA, son of Edward & Wealthy (Howard) White; died 26 June 1921 in Wardner, Shoshone County; buried in Kellogg, Idaho. L. A. Wilson, of Kellogg, Idaho, informant.
Obituary, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) of Tue., 10 May 1921.
KELLOGG, Idaho, May 8.---Amos White, age 71, died Saturday afternoon in Wardner at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Wilson, after an illness of about two years. He had lived at Melo, Wash. Besides his daughter in Wardner he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. J. F. Horsley of Waterford, Cal., who will arrive today.
From California Death Records:
Elsie A. White, 76, died 10 Sept 1926 in Stanislaus County.
Burials in Acacia Memorial Park, Modesto, Stanislaus Co., California.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 39002626)
ANN BODINE WHITE 1849---1926