Bodley, Thomas

Bodley, Thomas a Baptist minister, was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5, 1792. In his youth he followed the seas for several years, and was in the War of 1812. He joined a Reformed, Dutch Church in 1816, and subsequently united with a Baptist Church; was licensed and afterwards ordained in Auburn, N. Y., in September, 1830; preached for a time at Saline, Mich., also at Adrian and Tecumseh, After preaching in one or two other places, he removed to Chillicothe, Ill., in 1850, where he preached for a year, then went to Lacon, and in January, 1872, moved to Princeton, and thence to Bradford, Stark Co., where he died, April 30, 1879. See Minutes of Illinois Anniversaries, 1879, p. 10, 11. (J. C. S.)