Deborah Ann Bodkin

Brief Life History of Deborah Ann

When Deborah Ann Bodkin was born in 1814, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Bodkin Sr, was 53 and her mother, Margaret Devericks, was 47. She married Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick on 26 September 1831, in Nelson, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 January 1882, in Hutton, Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Whetstone Cemetery, Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick
1808–1862
Deborah Ann Bodkin
1814–1882
Marriage: 26 September 1831
Burgess Byrd Fitzpatrick
1827–1897
Manervia Jane Fitzpatrick
1833–1900
Nathaniel Fitzpatrick
1836–1909
Samuel Fitzpatrick Jr
1838–1880
Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick
1842–1875
James Madison Fitzpatrick
1844–1927
Sarah Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
1846–1866
William Franklin Fitzpatrick
1850–1925
George Washington Fitzpatrick
1852–1930
Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick
1854–1925
Silas Fitzpatrick
1856–1931

Sources (11)

  • Deborah Fitchpatrick in household of Samuel Fitchpatrick, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Debora Fitzpatrick, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"
  • Deborah Boelkin in entry for Burgus Fitzpatrick and Cora M Livingston Jones, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

Name Meaning

Irish (Galway) and English (Kent): from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Bodekin, an Anglo-Norman borrowing of Middle Dutch Bodekin, a pet form of the personal name Baldwin . The name was described by McLysaght as the name of one of the ‘Tribes of Galway’ in Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Death and burial

Deborah Ann Bodkin died January 26, 1882 in Hutton Township, Coles County Illinois at age 68 years old. She was buried in Whetstone Cemetery. There is evidence of a grave by the side of her husband …

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