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Note for: Zachariah Cleavenger, 1807 - AFT 2 MAR 1828 Index

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Will Written 2 Mar 1828 & Recorded: 12 Jun 1828. Marriage Records 1820-1850
and Will Records 1824-1849 of Ray Co. MO;

Will Written 2 Mar 1828 & Recorded: 12 Jun 1828. Marriage Records 1820-1850
and Will Records 1824-1849 of Ray Co. MO;

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Note for: Syche , ABT 1756 - Index

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Lived to be 115 years old in Coche Co., TN;

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Note for: Amy Marie Neufeld, - Index

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This Infomation Obtained from: Joyce A. Bishop (joyceabishop@@@@juno.com} 2/9/2006

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Note for: Mike Neal, - Index

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This Infomation Obtained from: Joyce A. Bishop (joyceabishop@@@@juno.com} 2/9/2006

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Note for: Frederick Charles "The Immigrant" Bodishbaugh, 3 JUL 1842 - 15 JAN 1888 Index

Christening:
     Date:   BET 1847 AND 1848
     Place:   Immigrated Ger>OH>IN>IL

Burial:
     Date:   1852
     Place:   Age 9 or 10, family moved across Wabash River to Grayville, IL

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1876, Relocated family to Mt. Carmel, IL for 18 months. Then relocated to farm near Bellmont and lived there 18 months, then returned to Grayville, Illinois.
Apr 23 1880, Fred became naturalized citizen of the U.S.
Dec 12, 1883, Fred became Charter Member of Post 373, Grand Army of the Republic, Grayville, IL
1883, Fred worked as butcher in Grayville, IL, as he was able to work.
Jan 15, 1888, died at home, of tb, incurred either in Chattanooga, TN Hospital #1, while there 3 months recuperating from leg injury; or during the Carolinas Campaign under Sherman, in Civil War.
Cemetery marker reflects incorrect military unit. Buried Oak Grove Cem, Grayville, IL.

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Note for: Almira "Allie" Conner, 9 DEC 1849 - 4 OCT 1874 Index

Christening:
     Place:   a/s/a Alice, Alvira, Almira, Elvira & Elmira

Burial:
     Place:   called ALLIE

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Note for: Mary A. "Mollie" Bodishbaugh, 10 JAN 1870 - 1936 Index

Christening:
     Place:   Called MOLLIE

Burial:
     Date:   9 JUN 1900
     Place:   Salesgirl, living at home w/mother and siblings

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Buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Grayville. See "Grayville Through the Years, 1855-1955, Centennial Celebration." Centennial Celebration Committee, p.45, 47.

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Note for: Charles Frederick "Fred" Bodishbaugh, 7 MAR 1871 - 12 DEC 1937 Index

Christening:
     Date:   7 MAR 1871
     Place:   b. Grayville, IL

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Charley attended Grayville School, where the principal was La Fayette Hunter. He later named his son LaFayette but Fay's mother changed his name, sex (recorded as female), date and place of birth, in 1940, when she filed his Delayed Birth Certificate for WWII.
Named for his father and called Charley, he was 17 when his father died in 1888. He quit school and became a butcher in the meat market in Grayville. He later went to work for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, formerly the Iron Mountain Railroad. He was an excellent carpenter and woodworker and became Freightcar Foreman, over 300 men in the North Little Rock REPTRAK.
In 1902, during a layover in a boarding house in Hume (Edgar), IL, the crossing point of the east-westbound Illinois Central Railroad and the north-southbound New York Central Railroad, 6'2" Charley met 5' Lucie, with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. Her aunt Joicy Reed Erion * ran the boarding house and Lucie had lived with her and worked there since age 14.
To attract his attention, she practiced "botching" his last name, and one night at the supper table deliberately mispronounced it. It got a hearty laugh and his attention.
After their marriage the couple moved to Little Rock and bought a home at 716 S. Valmar in the Big Rock Twp, attended Highland Heights Presbyterian Church, where Lucie was a Charter member.
1925 Little Rock City Directory, p.14, Charlie & Lucie Bodishbaugh, 716 S. Valmar St., ph.3-1244.
In April of 1927, came the flood. [Uncle Don told me this story in the late 1980s and I recorded it in our family history. Sue Bodishbaugh
When the railroad system increased in Grayville, Illinois, dad [Charles Frederick "Charley" Bodishbaugh] left home to work for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, formerly the Iron Mountain Railroad. Like his German father, Frederick Bodishbaugh, he was an excellent carpenter and woodworker. Initially, his job entailed just working on the train cars in the yard. The North Little Rock REPTRAK (Repair Track), the biggest REPTRAK yard existing at that time, was where all the trains from St. Louis to El Paso came to be repaired, and this is where dad found his calling and he brought mom and Fay [Uncle Don's older brother] down and settled his family in Little Rock. Mom's parents [the Erions] had been here, running a store.
Initially he spent his time "riding the rails," doing repairs, on-site checks, repairing damaged cars that could not be brought in, but through the years, dad was promoted often and became Freight Car Foreman, responsible for over 300 men. He lived and actually died at the rail yard, when he dropped dead of a ruptured aneurysm.
In April of 1927, (Uncle Don thought it was 19 Apr 1927), after heavy rains throughout the Mississippi Valley had soaked the land, Little Rock received 8.3 inches of rain in a 48-hour period. This was the worst flood in the history of Arkansas. State men said one-third of Arkansas was underwater.
The whole North Little Rock business section had been the original channel of the Arkansas River, and when the waters returned to their original stream bed, it was a disaster. The town was submerged under three feet of water. Residents of North Little Rock had fought the flood day and night with sandbags and any way they could to try to block the water.
The Governor of Arkansas called the railroad for assistance and MoPac executives sent dad and his men out. He and his men worked sandbagging a place some Arkansans now call "the place where the giant sat down," a granite quarry by the Arkansas River Valley and the dam. For three days and nights the men fought round the clock. With the highest flood waters expected the next day, dad took rail cars and filled them with coal. His intent was to make them so heavy they would hold the bridge firm and it wouldn't float away. They'd done all they could do, so dad and all the men went on home, exhausted.
The next morning, Fay and I took dad to work. We made long side-trips and unbelievable detours to get to there, to the bridge. I vividly remember the three of us walking over the rocks and mud, to get to the final point so dad could see. And I remember him stopping, looking up in disbelief and crying out, "Oh, no Look " We looked up and half the bridge was gone, washed away by the strong waters. And with the bridge went 14 MoPac cars loaded with coal. Eight cars were never found and are still in the Arkansas River bottom to this day. (I guess Uncle Don meant the other six cars were found and salvaged.) But the town was saved and that made dad so proud. It was a mess. This was the Baring Cross Bridge.
Sue Bodishbaugh
At 3:30 p.m., on Dec 12, 1937, in his 35th year with MoPac, Charley stood talking to one of his men at the railyard, a clipboard in his hands. An aneurysm in his heart ruptured and Charley was dead before he reached the ground. The employee he was speaking to had looked away and did not know what had happened until he turned back to see Charley, dead on the ground at his feet. Charlie was taken to MoPac Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A.F. Drummon & Co. handled funeral arrangements and Charley was buried on Dec 14, 1937 at Oaklawn Cem in Little Rock.

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Note for: John William "Will" Bodishbaugh, 19 DEC 1872 - 24 FEB 1949 Index

Christening:
     Place:   Called Will

Burial:
     Place:   Attended schools in Grayville, IL

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Note for: Catharine Rose "Kate" Tennes, 20 OCT 1853 - 27 SEP 1930 Index

Christening:
     Date:   20 OCT 1853
     Place:   b. Jasper, Dubois Co, IN; called KATE; a/s/a Tennes, Tenis, Thennis

Burial:
     Date:   22 OCT 1853
     Place:   Christened, St. Joseph's Cath Ch, DuBois, Ind.