Charles Augustus Bodwell, Jr. (1864-1948)

Son of: Charles 1822

Born Died Married Spouse

15 Sep 1864 10 Sep 1948 17 Jun 1907 Beda Simpson Sperry

Lakeville, Ca Sonoma Co, Ca San Francisco, Ca. b. 17 Jul 1865

Children of Charles and Beda (Sperry) Bodwell

Name Birth Date Birth Place Death Date Death Place

1. Sperry Augustus 9 Jun 1908 Ca. 8 Aug 1923 San Joaquin Co, Ca

2. Charles A. ABT 1912 Guatemala City, Gta

Marin Journal
Thursday, August 9, 1923
Page 1

Boy Known Here Drowns In Stockton

Sperry Bodwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bodwell, of Lakeville, Sonoma county, and a student at the Mount Tamalpais Military Academy, was drowned yesterday when he fell from a high bank into Yosemite Lake, in Stockton.

The boy, aged 16, had gained permission from his mother, who, with her son, was visiting relatives in Stockton, to fish in the lake. He failed to return to luncheon and his mother went to the lake, where she learned that a boy had been drowned and the body removed to the morgue. She identified the body as that of her son.

Charles A. Bodwell is well known in Marin county. Some years ago he was a candidate for election to Congress. The boy was a grandson of the late Austin Sperry, founder of the Sperry Flour Mills, of Stockton.

01/01/97, 01/23/12

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