Notes for: Mary Bodine
I don't know where Mary comes in the birth order, but my guess is that she comes after Peter and before Abraham. She may or may not come before F. Seaborn.
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1850, George Nixon was living in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.
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.