This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bodkin Botkin Propst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5k.2ADE/1278.1 Message Board Post: William Harrison Bodkin and John Addison Botkin were brothers, sons of Joshua Bodkin and Barbara Propst. I don't know for sure why they spelled the name differently; my grandmother said they both just insisted their way was right. They moved from Pendleton Co., Virginia (W Va) after the Civil War settling first in Clinton Co. and then Jackson Co., Iowa.