Notes for: Lewis Henry Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
Lewis Bodine enlisted 20 June 1861 in Monroe, New York with Company B, 2nd U.S. Artillery and was discharged 9 Feb 1864. He reenlisted 9 Feb 1864 at Brandywine Station, Virginia and was discharged 9 Feb 1867. On 7 July 1870, he enlisted at Camp Russell in Company D, 4th U.S. Artillery and was discharged with a disability on 27 April 1873. On 16 Aug 1875, he enlisted in Company E, 5th U.S. Artillery and deserted on 9 March 1876. In June 1880, Lewis H. Bodine, age 32, a clerk in an oil store, lived with his parents in Brooklyn, New York. He was a widower and had two small children, Lewis A. 5 and Grace L. 2. The marriage of H. L. Bodine to Hattie M. Rowe, both of Brooklyn, was performed at Hanson Place Baptist Church in New York City and was reported in the Brooklyn Eagle of 11 Sept 1880. On 10 March 1891, he filed for a pension claiming service with all of the foregoing units. The 1892 New York State Census recorded Henry L. Bodine, age 50, salesman, living in Brooklyn's 11th Ward. His family included wife Hattie M. 34, and children Louis A. 17, clerk, and Genevieve 8. In June 1900, he was living at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio noting he had been married for 20 years, and died there 22 Nov 1905. He was in Soldiers Home National Cemetery as a Private with Company D, 4th U.S. Artillery. On 27 Dec 1905, his widow, Harriet M. Bodine, filed for a widow's pension in New Jersey.
Hattie Bodine was living 1900 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. She reported that she had been married 20 years and had borne 4 children of whom 2 were then living, both with her. Her husband was not living with the family. In 1910, she was still living in Newark, but reported now she was a widow and both children were living, but only Carle was living with her. In 1920, Harriett Bodine, age 63, was living in East Orange, Essex County and in 1930, as Harriet Bodine, age 74, was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Genevieve and Charles Sanderson, in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.