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    1. Re: BODLE
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XhB.2ACE/500.1.1 Message Board Post: On the Colorado County TXGenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/chestervilledoc.htm you will find the following: BODLE, Leonidas (Uncle Lonnie), and wife Minnie, their two sons, Claude and George, and Uncle Lonnie's father, George Bodle came (to Chesterville, Colorado Co., TX) from Illinois in 1899. Uncle Lonnie served 2 years as Postmaster, owned and operated the hotel and a store from 1902 to 1906. Was farmer, will digger and engine man. Moved to Eagle Lake in late years. A widowed sister, (daughter to George Sr.), Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hunt and her two children Edna and Arthur joined the family here in 1901 and lived for 7 years ___. She returned to Chesterville in 1914 after her marriage to M. M. Beals. Another sister, Inis, with her husband, Bert Cade, came later from Oklahoma. Their children: Walter, Esther, Bob (or Rob), Frank, Lily and Annie. The family moved away in 1915, sometime after the death of Inis and Walter.  In the information on Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake , you will find these entries: Bodle, Leonidas E.; born: Apr 28, 1865; died: Oct 11, 1946; Bodle, Minnie O.; born: Mar 10, 1868; died: Jul 19, 1946; Married Leonidas E. Bodle Hope this helps, Dorothy Albrecht County Coordinator, Colorado County TXGenWeb Project

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