The Mary Louisa (English) Phillips journal says that her uncle Will Bodine and wife lived in Somerset between San Antonio and Devine.
The following comes from the Internet, but I'm not sure where:
William T. 0. Bodine was President of Kelsey Branch from Spring Conference 1905 to Spring Conference of 1908. The Bodine family came from Oklahoma. They were living in St. Augustine, Texas. According to granddaughter Nora Pickering, when William Thomas Bodine joined the Mormon church and his father disowned him. One brother, James, did write him. William married Matilda Elizabeth Click and had children before coming to the Mormon Colony in Upshur County, Texas. One son, Oscar, was born in Babyland, Texas.
Elder M. T. Blackburn’s journal entry for December 5, 1902 states "In the afternoon we went to Gilmer starting on our journey among the Saints and elders. In the waiting room at the railroad station, we met Sisters Bodine and Cox with part of their families, all going to Kelsey. Brothers Bodine and Cox were coming with their teams and wagons’. Heber Jones said the Bodine’s lived past Charles Shirley’s home.
W. T. O. Bodine was second counselor to Kelsey’s first Branch President Harless according to Sister Aaron’s life story. To give a picture of general life at that time, I insert an entry from the journal of Elder James Brinkerhoff: "McKinney, Texas, March 9, 1904, Tuesday. We went to the train and got off for Kelsey on the M & E T Railroad at 8:20 p.m. Went to Greenville and bought tickets to Pittsburg. Had to lay over there from one o’clock till 12:15 at night for a train going to Gilmer where we were to get off. Got to Gilmer at one o’clock in the night. Were then six miles from Kelsey. Walked on out and got there at 2:20. Elders Hancock and Leak stayed with W E Reed and Pres. Davis and I went to Bro. W. T. 0. Bodines’. There we found Elder R. B. Boyack, missionary school teacher that year, and both got into bed with him.’
I do not know the order of birth of William and Matilda Bodine’s children, but their names as given me by Nora B. Pickering were Minnie May, Silas Marion, William Elijah (died as an infant), John Jay, Arthur and Oscar (twins), and Archie Dee. Oscar married a Kelsey girl, Lou Armilda Harris, May 15, 1908. They remained in the branch and had two children before moving to Coleman, Texas. They lived there about three-and-a half years and came back to Kelsey. May 29, 1912, they left Kelsey to make Salt Lake City, Utah, their home. Nora Bodine Pickering of California is their daughter. John Jay had a son on a mission in Texas 1929-1931. He visited in Kelsey where he was born, and met many of his parents’ friends. All the Bodine family went to Utah about 1912.
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From Ronny Bodine (March 9, 2022):
When William Bodine joined the LDS Church he was disowned by his father. He was "president" of the Kelsey, Ulspher County, Texas LDS Mission or Stake from 1905-1908. Matilda (Click) Bodine was the daughter of George and Laura Augusta Elizabeth (Laab) Click. William and Matilda Bodine were buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
1st marriage--1882--MATILDA ELIZABETH CLICK.
From Parker County, Texas Marriage Records:
W. T. Bodine AND Matilda Click were married 19 Sept 1882.
In 1910, William T. Bodine and his family lived in Upshur County, Texas engaged in farming. The couple reported that in 27 years of marriage Matilda had borne 7 children of who 4 were then living. In 1912, the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1920, as Thomas W. Bodine, he and his wife Matilda lived in Salt Lake City where he worked as a janitor in the state capitol building.
Obituary, The Salt Lake Tribune of 18 Sept 1929.
Mrs. Matilda Elizabeth Bodine, 74, died in a local hospital Monday nlght. She was born in Texas, January 4, 1855 and after joining the L.D.S. church In 1898, was an active worker in the Kelsey, Texas, branch. She and her husband came to Salt Lake with their family in 1912 and she had since continued her activities and engaged in work in the L.D.S. temple. Surviving are her husband, William T. Bodlne, of 120 Sparta street; three sons, John J. of Mill Creek; Arthur L. and Oscar, both of Salt Lake; and a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Gray Coleman, of Texas. Four brothers also survive. They are Columbus, Henry, James and Thomas Click, all residents in Texas. [Note: Matilda Miller was 1st married in 1890 to Joseph C. Harvey, with whom she ws living 1900 in Lawrence County, South Dakota.]
2nd marriage--1929--EMILY CILICA HILL.
From Salt Lake County, Utah Marriage Records:
William Thomas Bodine, son of Wm. Robt. & N. J. (Poole) Bodine, born 31 July 1860 AND Emma C. Cole, dau. of W. J. & Henritta (Hadlock) Hill, born 4 Aug 1874, were married 26 Dec 1929.
William and Emily Bodine were living 1930 in Salt Lake City where he worked as a produce vendor. The 1931 Salt Lake City Directory lists Wm. & Emma C. Bodine living at 144 W. 5th So. The Salt Lake Tribune of 7 Oct 1933 reported that W. T. Bodine won a divorce from Emley C. Bodine on 6 Oct 1933.
From the Utah Death Certificate of Emily Cilica Hill Kjelstrom, wife of John V. Kjelstrom, born 4 Aug 1871 in Utah to William James Hill & Hennretta Hadlock; died 30 April 1949 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County.
Obituary, The Salt Lake Tribune of Sunday, 1 May 1949.
Mrs. Emily Cilica Hill Kjelstrom, 77, 829 S. 1st West, died at her residence Saturday at 5:45 a.m. of a heart ailment. She was born in Wasatch county, Aug. 4, 1871, daughter of William James and Henrietta Hadlock Hill. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she was active in the Fourth ward. Mrs. Kjelstrom was a Salt Lake resident about 26 years. She was married to John V. Kjelstrom. They were divorced. Survivors include four sons, Elmer Kjelstrom, Los Angeles; Sylvester Kjelstrom, Sandy; Clarence Kjelstrom, Columbua, Ga.; and Axel Kjelstrom, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Rhoda Page, Oreville, Cal.; Mrs. Henrietta Snyder, Santa Barbara, Cal.; and Mrs. Sarah Kiaser, Bakersfield, Cal.; two brothers, Charles S. Hill, Talmage, Duchesne county; three sisters, Mrs. Belinda Gould, Los Angeles; Mrs. Persina Parks, Redding, Cal. and Mrs. Hulda Norton, Wellington, Carbon county; 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Burials in Wellington City Cemetery, Wellington, Carbon County, Utah.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 36077842)
Mother EMILY C. KJELSTROM 1871---1949
3rd marriage--1935--REBECCA MOODY BURNS.
From Salt Lake County, Utah Marriage Records:
William Thomas Bodine, born 31 July 1860 in St. Augustine, Texas, son of William Robert & Mary Jane Louisa (Pool) Bodine AND Rebecca Moody Burns, born 15 Oct 1868 in Jackson Co., Mississippi, dau. of John & Caroline (Mixson) Pool, were married 16 May 1935 in Salt Lake City by Joseph Christenson, Elder, LDS.
From Utah Death Records:
Rebecca Moody Lee, dau. of Dr. John & Caroline (Mixon) Moody, was born 15 Oct 1868 in Enon, Mississippi; died 21 Feb 1953 in Salt Lake City. Widow of Benj. F. Lee, deceased. Buried in Was Lawn Memorial Park, SLC.
4th marriage--1938---NELIA WATKINS.
From Salt Lake County, Utah Marriage Records:
William Thomas Bodine, born 31 July 1860 in St. Augustine, Texas, son of William Robert & Mary Jane (Poole) Bodine AND Nelia Ellis, born June 12, 1878 in Reno, Oklahoma, dau. of James P. & Nancy A. (Gray) Watkins, were married 23 March 1938 in Salt Lake City, by Alvin A. Bersley, LDS Elder.
Obituary, Salt Lake Tribune of Monday, 17 Oct 1938.
Mrs. Nelia Watkins Flicker Bodine, 60, of 453 Fourth East street, died Saturday night in the Salt Lake general hospital. Born June 12, 1878, in El Reno, Okla., she was a daughter of James and Maxine Gray Watkins. Surviving are her husband, William Bodine of Salt Lake City; a son, William Ray Bodine of Bingham, and two grandchildren. [Note: In 1895 in SLC, Nelia Watkins married James Smith; in 1900 in SLC, Nelia Smith married Gilbert Ray, by whom she had a son, William Ray, named in her obituary. In 1915 in Salt Lake City, as Nelia Ray, she married Albert Flicker; in 1935 in SLC Nelia Flicker married Arthur J. Ellis.]
5th marriage--1939--MARY MATILDA MILLER.
From Salt Lake County, Utah Marriage Records:
T. O. Bodine, born 31 July 1860 in Texas, son of William Robert & Mary Jane (Poole) Bodine AND Mary M. Harvey, born 16 March 1872 in Iowa, dau. of Alexander & Julia (Fennell) Miller, were married 3 Aug 1939 in Salt Lake City by James E. Richards, Bishop, 14th LDS Ward.
1940 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT: William BODINE 79 TX, Matilda 68 IA wife.
From Utah Death Records:
Matilda Miller Harvey Bodine was born 16 March 1872 in Algoma, Iowa, parents unknown, and died 3 Jan 1947 in Salt Lake City. Wife of Wm. Bodine, age 86. Burial in City Cemetery.
6th marriage--1948--NORA BELLE WALTERS.
William T. Bodine AND Nora Smith were married 11 Sept 1948. [Note: The Salt Lake Tribune of 12 Sept 1948 reported that William Thomas Bodine, 88 and Mrs. Nora Walters Smith, 73, will be married this Sunday afternoon at Mr. Bodine's residence by John R. Burt, bishop of the Sixth-Seventh ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Bodine died 1 1/2 years ago and Mrs. Smith's husband died in 1944. The reason given for their marriage is they're "lonesome living alone."]
From Utah Death Records:
Nora Belle Walters Smith, dau. of Elliott H. & Mary Jane (Taylor) Walters, 3 times widowed, widow of Jesse Everett Smith, born 4 Sept 1875 in Decatur, Nebraska, died 31 Jan 1950 in Salt Lake City, burial in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Burials in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 61142650)
BODINE Father William T. O. July 31, 1860 Nov. 4, 1952 Mother Matilda E. C. Jan. 4, 1855 Sept. 16, 1929