Obadiah Boddie 1850-1860compare

Narcissa (Bodie) Or Corder?

Below are the members of the Obadiah Bodie household as listed in the 1850 census for Edgefield County page 171B.

Narcissa Corder age 1 month is listed at the same House Number as Obadiah, along with an older sister, Laura age 1, their mother Elizabeth (Bodie) Cordan age 20 and their Father Morgan Cordan 19. Elizabeth is Obadiah's oldest daughter

and her and Morgan's family are listed in the middle of Obadiah's children.

This is the reasoning you could believe Narcissa is Obadiah's granddaughter and not his daughter,

Below are the members of the Obadiah Bodie household as listed in the 1860 census page 157 including Obadiah Jr.'s Family.

Elizabeth and Morgan Corder have moved on. How ever there are still two young girls living in the house. We know F. H. is Frances Hannah who Married Lem Rogers. If N.E. is Narcissa then the names and ages in the 1950 census are mixed up and Narcissa should only be 10 years old in this census.

1850 Census enumerated by John R. Allen

1860 Census enumerated by J. Hamilton Allen

LN	HN	FN	Last Name	First Name	Age	Sex	LN	HN	FN	Last Name	First Name	age	sex
7	201	201	Bodie	Obadiah	66	M	13	1179	1182	Bodie	Obadiah	71	M
8	201	201	Bodie	Jane	46	F	14			Bodie	Jane	54	F
9	201	201	Bodie	Obadiah	18	M	15			Bodie	Nathan	23	M
10	201	201	Bodie	Chesly	22	M	16			Bodie	N. E.	13	F
11	201	201	Corder	Morgan	19	M	17			Bodie	F. H.	9	F
12	201	201	Corder	Elizabeth	20	F	18	1180	1183	Bodie	Obadiah	27	M
13	201	201	Corder	Laura	1	F	19			Bodie	Anna	25	F
14	201	201	Corder	Narcissa	1/12	F	20			Bodie	William	5	M
15	201	201	Bodie	Jane	16	F	21			Bodie	David	4	M
16	201	201	Bodie	Nathan	14	M	22			Bodie	Elijah	2	M
17	201	201	Bodie	Lucina	5	F	23

John R. Allen was the enumerator for the first census and J. Hamilton Allen for the 1860 census. This adds more confusion to the ciphering. When interpreting cursive hand writing it's easy to confuse a capital H with a capital A, so the enumerator could be the same person. If you're confused about who Narcissa was, you might as well accept the family line, that she's Obadiah's daughter and John Allen was sampling the family distilleries while enumerating the family. After all John R. is the same person who gave us Chisley, Risley and Ena Sardinia Rodges.