Notes for: Birdie Love Bodine

From: Suzy020285 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008

I am the great-granddaughter of Marion Wallace Seay. My mother's name is Birdie Eleanor Seay Wise. Her father was Marion Wallace Seay, Jr. I was looking up family names doing some research on my mother's side of the family and found this web site.

On the home page there was mention of family pictures. Would there happen to be one of Marion Wallace Seay Sr.?

Thanks,
Susan Wise McCloud

From Ronny Bodine (June 28, 2021):

From Washington County, Kentucky Marriage Records:
W. M. Seay AND Miss Birdy Love Bodine were married 22 Sept 1913 in Louisville, Jefferson County, by W. T. Mullins, in the presence of Mae E. Bodine and Arthur Daniels.

On 27 April 1942, Marion Wallace Seay Sr. of Bloomfield, KY registered for the World War II Draft. He reported he was born 2 Feb 1878 in Washington, KY, was a farmer, and named his wife, Birdie Seay, as his next of kin.

From the Kentucky Death Certificate of Marion Walace [sic] Seay, born 2 Feb 1878 in KY, son of Francis B. & Leeana (Foster) Seay; died 2 Oct 1957 in Louisville, Jefferson County; buried Campground Cemetery. Mrs. M. W. Seay, informant.

Obituary, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) of Thur., 3 Oct 1957.
Bardstown, Ky., Oct. 2---Marion Wallace Seay, 80, Bloomfield retired farmer, died Wednesday afternoon at Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, where he had been a patient since Saturday. Seay was one of the organizers and the first president of Salt River Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, which serves Nelson and three other counties. He served as president 17 years. He formerly had served 15 years as president of the Nelson County Farm Bureau. Seay was also an elder of Bloomfield Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Birdie Seay; two sons, Marion W. Seay, Jr., Bardstown, and David F. Seay, Bloomfield, and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Parrish, Boston. The body is at Spicer, McAfee & Adam Funeral Home, Bloomfield.

From the Kentucky Death Certificate of Birdie Love Seay, born 22 Oct 1887 in KY, daughter of John David & Sallie J. (Arnold) Bodine; died 9 Jan 1963 in Bloomfield, Nelson County; buried in Campground Cemetery. David Seay informant.

Obituary, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) of Friday, 11 Jan 1963.
Bardstown, Ky. Jan. 10---Mrs. Birdie L. Seay, 75, died at her home in Bloomfield Wednesday of a heart attack. She was the widow of Wallace Seay, who was president of the Nelson County Farm Bureau for 15 years, and was the first president of the Salt River Rural Electric Cooperative at Bardstown. Survivors include two sons, David F. Seay, Bloomfield, and Marion W. Seay, Bardstown, and two sisters, Miss Mae Bodine, Bloomfield, and Mrs. Walter Royalty, Bardstown. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Spicer, McAfee & Adam Funeral Home at Bloomfield.

Burials in Campground Church Cemetery, Woodlawn, Nelson County, Kentucky.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 58713246)
SEAY BIRDIE B. 1887---1963 MARION W. SR. 1878---1957