Notes for: John C. Bodine
From: Jerri McCoy [geniebug at comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Subject: Ann "Nancy" Hulsizer Bodine
Hi Dave,
I found your wonderful Bodine family website when looking for my Hulshizer/Hulsizer family people. I found Ann "Nancy" Hulsizer (1801-1880) married to John Bodine.
In your posted notes you state that Nancy got a payment out of Christopher Hulsizer's final Rev. War pension disbursement, and that she signed for it. Do you have a copy of that record? Do you know the names of the other heirs who also signed for their share? I am a Hulshizer/Hulsizer family researcher, and I didn't have Ann as a child of Christopher. I only had children born up to 1795. The names of the other heirs would really help to place her in the family.
Thank you for any help you can provide!
Sincerely,
Jerri McCoy
Hulshizer Heritage
From Ronny Bodine:
On 13 May 1848, William H. Sloan was appointed administrator of the estate of John Bodine, late of Hunterdon County. Securities were David Hulsizer and Richard Hope who filed an inventory that date having appraised the estate at $50. (New Jersey Estates, Hunterdon County, File 5039J)
In 1850, Nancy Bodine, age 49, lived in the Dock Ward of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her 3 daughters Margaret, Melvina and Mary. In 1860, as Anna, age 58, she lived in Perry, Pike County, Illinois. In 1870, Anna Bodine, age 69, and her son John lived in Perry, Pike County in the home of her son-in-law and daughter Isaac and Melvina Pecare. In 1880, now aged 78, she lived with Isaac and Melvina Pecare in Peabody, Marion County, Kansas.
There is a Final Pension Payment Voucher filed under the Act of 1818 for one Christopher Hulsiger, a Private serving from New Jersey in the Revolutionary War who was placed on the pension roll on 18 March 1826 with an effective date of 15 Sept 1825, who died 16 Feb 1833. Final payments were made to his heirs in Hunterdon County on 5 Aug 1835 and included among his children was Nancy Bodine wife of John Bodine, who signed for her payment. The service record of Christopher Hulsizer shows he served as a Private in the company commanded by Captain John Budd Scott in the regiment of Colonel William Maxwell from 26 Nov 1775 to Oct 1776 when he was discharged at Ticondaroga, New York.
The Hunterdon County Democrat newspaper refers to John Bodine Esq. of Raritan at the marriage of his daughter Catherine and deaths of two of his children all in 1846. By 1850, Nancy Bodine is without a husband and caring for her children.
As he is noted as John Bodine Esq. of Raritan, being Raritan Township in Hunterdon County, one can identify him with the only John Bodine appearing in the 1840 New Jersey census who was living in Raritan Township, Hunterdon County. The breakdown in age groupings is as follows:
Males 1(40-49): 1791-1800, 1(30-39): 1801-1810; 1(5-9), 1831-1835, 1(0-4): 1836-1840.
Females 1(30-39): 1801-1810; 1(15-19): 1821-1825; 2(10-14): 1826-1830, 1(0-4): 1836-1840.
Raritan Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on 2 April 1838 from portions of Amwell Township in Hunterdon County. In examining the 1830 New Jersey census one finds two John Bodines, one each in Kingwood Township and Bethlehem Township of Hunterdon County. There are also two Bodines living in Amwell Township-- Benjamin and David R. Bodine. From the Bodine family bible it is known that Benjamin Bodine (1793-1875) did not have a brother named John.
Burials in Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody, Marion County, Kansas.
Find A Grave Memorial # 9371880
BODINE Our Mother ANNIE HULSIZER Wife of John Bodine
Nov. 13, 1801 Aug. 17, 1880
Abraham Bodine, in his will of 1876, having no surviving children, named his heirs as his wife Amy, and after her death his surviving siblings or their heirs. To fulfill the requirements of the will, it was necessary to identify all the potential heirs and this was accomplished in the subsequent probate. The following notice was published in the Albany Evening Journal of Wednesday, 28 June 1876.
The People of the State of New York, to Daniel Bodine, Pittsford, IlI, Kate Sutphin, Girard, Ill, Margt. Mason and Mary King, Perry, Ill., Melvina Pecare, Mendan, Ill., John Bodine, Tioga, NY, Hatue? Hill and Mary C. Curtis, West Barre, N.Y., Samuel C. Bodine, N. Oakfield, N. Y ; Joseph H. Bodine, Green Core Springs, Florida; Mary Ann Tyson, Philadelphia, Penn.; Rebecca Nixon. Washington, N. J.; Elizabeth Van Syckle, Phillipsburg, N. J., Daniel S. Bodine, Stockton, N.J.; Eleanor Creggar, Hattie Bodine and Lowe Bodine, Annandale, N. J.: Kate Bodine, Lima, N. Y.; Jane DeWitt, Scranton, Pa , Keith B. Humphrey, Charles W. Humphrey and John W. N. Bodine, Mount Morris, N. Y.; Mary K. Chapman, Dysart, Iowa; George H. Petty, William Petty, Whitfield Petty, Francis D. Petty, Jacob Petty, Sarah Petty, Alonzo Petty, Orin Petty, Ella Petty. Thomas Petty, Ida J. Petty, Margaret M. Petty, Lucius I. Petty, Lewis Z. Petty, John F. Petty, all of Wyant, Illinois heirs and next of kin of Abraham L. Bodine, late of the town of Barre in tbe county of Orleans, deceased.
Whereas Amy A. Bodine and Arad Thomas, executors named in the last will and testament of the said Abraham L. Bodine, deceased, have applied to the surrogate of the said county of Orleans for the proof of the said will which will related to real and personal estate; you are therefore hereby cited to appear before the surrogate, at his office in Albion in said county, on the 14th day of August, 1876 at 10 o'clock in the afternoon, to attend tne probate of the said will.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Albion, Orleans county the seventh day of June, 1876. JNO. O. SAWYER, Surrogate
The named heirs, all living in 1876, and their relationships to the testator are identified as follows in the order of the births of Abraham Bodine's siblings:
1. JOHN C. BODINE died 1848. His heirs were his 6 surviving children: Daniel H. Bodine, Catherine Bodine Sutphin, Margaret Bodine Marden, John M. Bodine, Melvina Bodine Pecare and Mary Bodine King.
2. JOSEPH M. BODINE died 1868. His heirs were his children Mary Bodine Curtiss, John W. Bodine, Samuel C. Bodine, Joseph H. Bodine and the heirs of his deceased daughter Ann Bodine Humphrey who were her sons Keith and Charles Humphrey. Joseph's eldest daughter, Harriet Bodine Hill (1827-1909) appears to have been overlooked.
3. PETER BODINE died 1866. His heirs were his 7 surviving children: Elizabeth Bodine Vansyckle, Daniel S. Bodine, Mary Bodine Cregar, Hettie Bodine, Catherine Bodine Hill, Abraham Low Bodine (named as Lowe Bodine), and Jane Bodine DeWitt.
4. DANIEL S. BODINE died before 1846. One heir is named, Mary Ann Tyson.
5. MARY BODINE NIXON died in 1832. Her children were Elizabeth Nixon and Hester Nixon (1830-1874), wife of John Thornton Petty. As Hester was deceased at the probate of the will, her share of the estate passed to her children: George H. Petty, William W. Petty, Whitfield C. Petty, Francis D. Petty, Jacob Petty, Sarah J. Petty, Alonzo Petty, Orin Petty, Ella Petty, Thomas Petty, Ida J. Petty, Margaret M. Petty, Lucius I. Petty, Lewis Z. Petty and John F. Petty.
One heir, Mary K. Chapman could not be identified.