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    <ul style="width: 135px"><li>JanBodine51</li><li>Dec 12 5:44 PM</li></ul><div style="width: 477px">Hello,<br><br>I am researching families associated with the Bodines of Fountain County, Indiana, and I thought I would share the following biography I found for Elijah Boord - I hope you might enjoy having this for your own records.<br><br>Janet Mackey-Bodine<br><br><br>History of Fountain County, Indiana - 1881<br><br>By H. W. Beckwith<br><br>Chicago - H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Publishers, 1881<br><br>Biographical Sketches of Van Buren Township - page 308<br><br><br><br>Elijah Boord, farmer, Stone Bluff, is among the pioneers of Osborne&#39;s prairie. He was born in the first year of the present century, in the state of Virginia. His mother died when he was a prattling babe. Soon after his father, George Boord, emigrated to Ohio, where Elijah remained till 1828, when he came to Fountain county. His father emigrated to Illinois, where he died. Elijah Boord and Nancy Crane, daughter of Johathan Crane, were united in marriage in 1828, previous to his coming to Fountain county. They raised a family of eleven children, six of whom, at the present date, citizens of this county. Two of his sons, George and Joseph, died in the late war. The former belonged to the 15th Ind. Vols., and died at Columbus, Ohio. The latter was found dead in the mountains. Elijah Boord died in 1855. He was an old soldier of the cross in the New Light Christian church. Johnathan Boord, son of Elijah, was born in 1832, in Warren county, Ohio. He was married in 1842 to Marinda Dudley, native of Butler county, Ohio, daughter of Job and Sarah (Marshton) Dudley, both natives of Maine, and pioneer settlers of Ohio. By this marriagehe has eight children, five sons and three daughters: Joana, Elijah M., Ira A., John S., Nancy, Elizabeth E., Joseph, George W., and Jasper. Elijah M. was a drummer in 154th Ind. Vols. Mr. Boord was justice of the peace in Van Buren township from 1854 to 1860. By trade he is a mason. At one time he was engaged in the drug and hardware trade, in Covington, afterward in the same business in Hillsborough, Cain township. Where he resides he has a farm of fifty-two acres, and owns fourty acres of land in Iroquois county, Illinois. He and his wife were members ofthe New Light Christians, at Osborn&#39;s chapel.<br><br></div>

 
 
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