Notes for: Evangeline Lowrey Bodine
From Ronny Bodine (May 29, 2020):
In 1920, as Evangeline Bodine Jr., age 12, she was living with her parents in Franklin, Somerset County, New Jersey.
From New Jersey Marriage Records:
Willard Suydam AND Evangeline Bodine were married Aug 1927. [Date & location not specified. However, the 1968 SAR Application of their son, John L. Suydam furnished the specifics: married 20 Aug 1927 at Pompton Plains, Morris County.]
1940 Franklin, Somerset Co., NJ: Willard SUYDAM 35 NY efficiency expert-cotton mill, Evangeline 22 NJ wife, Willard III 11 NJ son, John L. 8 NJ son, Douglas V. 5 NJ son
From The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ) of 17 June 1948.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, June 17---Despondent because of ill health, Mrs. Evangeline Suydam, 40, of Suydam road, committed suicide in the bedroom of her home at about 9 a.m. today. The woman shot herself with a .38 calibre revolver, according to State Trooper John Genz, who investigated. Willard Suydam, the woman's husband, and their son, Willard III, 19, were working near the house when they heard a noise. Believing someone had fallen, they investigated and found Mrs. Suydam in the bedroom. Dr. Edgar Flint, county physician, viewed the body. Two others sons, John, 16, and Douglas, 11, survive.
Obituary, The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ) of 18 June 1948.
SOUTH MIDDLEBUSH, June 18---Mrs. Evangeline B. Suydam, 40, of this place, wife of Willard V. Suydam, died yesterday from a bullet wound. Born in Franklin Park and a member of the Franklin Park Reformed Church, Mrs. Suydam is survived by three sons in addition to her husband. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the Taggart Funeral Home, Bound Brook, with the Rev. George Moore of the Franklin Park Reformed Church officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plains Cemetery.
Obituary, The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ) of 8 April 1978.
FRANKLIN---Willard V. Suydam, 73, of Suydam Road, died yesterday in Somerset Hospital, Somerville. Born in The Bronx, N.Y., he was a long-term area resident. Mr. Suydam retired in 1947 after 24 years as an engineer for Johnson & Johnson. He was a member of the Six-Mile-Run Reformed Church. Surviving are his wife, Edna Suydam; three sons, Willard of Belle Meade, Montgomery, John L. of Edison, and Douglas V. of New Lisbon, Pemberton; two brothers, Harold E. of Franklin Park, and Edgar V. of Pennington; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Monday at the Quackenboss Funeral Home, 156 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick with the Rev. Dr. John Hayward, pastor of the First Baptist Church of New Brunswick, officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Plains Cemetery, Franklin Park.
Burials in Pleasant Plains Cemetery, Franklin Twp., Somerset Co., New Jersey.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 176658276)
SUYDAM WILLARD V. 1904---1978 EVANGELINE 1907---1948