Biography:

Lawyer; genealogist. Born– December 5, 1880, Dayton. Parents– John Bennett and Annie (Perryman) Boddie. Married– Emma McCall, January 10, 1907 (died 1947). Children– Four. Married– Pearl D. Davis (died 1951).  Married– Lillian Orr Williams, 1953. Education– University of Virginia, 1900-1902; Kent College of Law in Chicago, LL.B., 1911. Entered the army during the Spanish-American War but discharged when it was discovered he was under age. During World War I, served as a lieutenant and captain in the U.S. Army Air Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, 1914-1917, 1919-1923; practiced law in Chicago.  Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. Died January 2, 1965. Died January 2, 1965.

Source:

Historical Southern Families, Vol. 1 and Seventeenth Century of Isle of Wight, Virginia.

Publication(s):

Births, Deaths, and Sponsors, 1717-1778, from the Albemarle Parish Register of Surrey and Sussex Counties, Virginia. Baltimore ; Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974.

Boddie and Allied Families. Chicago?; s.n., 1918.

Colonial Surrey. Baltimore; Genealogical Pub. Co., 1948.

Historical Southern Families. Redwood City, Calif.; Pacific Coast Publishers, 1957-1971.

Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, Virginia. Chicago; Chicago Law Printing Co., 1938.

Southside Virginia Families. Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Co., 1955.

Virginia Historical Genealogies. Redwood City, Calif.; Pacific Coast Publishers, 1954.