Carrie Melissa Wiles, a daughter of Elizabeth Ann (née Nelson) and Henry Greenberry Wiles, was born 30 May 1861 in Jefferson, Frederick County, Maryland. When Carrie was about 6½ years old, her mother died, and Carrie was afterwards brought up by her stepmother and maternal aunt Melissa.

Carrie M. Wiles and Jacob Bodmer, Jr., were married on 20 January 1887 at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. The couple became the parents of eight children. The first three children, born from 1887 to 1890, were born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. The family moved across the Potomac River to Montgomery County, Maryland, where the couple's fourth child was born in 1892 in Darnestown, and the final four children were born from 1893 to 1899 in Poolesville. After Jacob Bodmer passed away in 1928, Carrie Bodmer resided with her daughter Jessie Campbell in Mount Rainier, Prince Georges County, Maryland.

Children:

• William Henry LeRoy Bodmer (1887-1948)
• Jacob Burgess Bodmer (1889-1890)
• Mary Elizabeth "Lyda" Bodmer (1890-1928)
• Charles Roszier Bodmer (1892-1966)
• Carrie Geneva Bodmer Chiswell (1893-1978)
• Minnie Louise Bodmer Myerly (1895-1996)
• Jessie May Bodmer Campbell (1897-1989)
• George Reginald Bodmer (1899-1959)

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"Mrs. Carrie M. Bodmer, widow of Jacob Bodmer, Poolesville, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frederick Campbell, 3923 Twenty-eighth street, Mt. Rainier, Wednesday night at 9 o'clock, aged 77 years, 10 months, 2 days. The following children survive: Mrs. George Chiswell, Mrs. Frederick Campbell and George Bodmer, Mt. Rainer, Roy Bodmer, Beallsville; Rozier Bodmer, Poolesville; Mrs. Stockton Myrley, Montgomery, W. Va. Funeral Saturday from the home of Mrs. Campbell at 12 o'clock noon, with services in the Poolesville Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock. Interment Monocacy cemetery, Beallsville. William B. Hilton, funeral director." ("Mrs. Carrie M. Bodmer [obit.]," The Frederick Post, Maryland, 31 Mar 1939, p. 5.)
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Notes

1870 U.S. Census, District 14 (Jefferson), Frederick Co., Maryland; dwelling 2, family 2, lines 8-17, p. 531 (printed), p. 21 (written), 1 Aug 1870.
8. Wiles, Henry G. [head], 43, carpenter ($1,600; $500), Maryland.
9. ----- Melissa, 42, Maryland.
10. ----- Fannie [Richards], 18, Maryland.
11. ----- Rignal D. [Richards], 16, Maryland.
12. ----- Laura D., 15, Maryland.
13. ----- Lizzie D., 11, Maryland.
14. ----- Elizza May [Richards], 9, Maryland.
15. ----- Carrie M., 9, Maryland.
16. ----- Jessie B., 4, Maryland.
17. ----- Frank, 10/12, Maryland.
• Laura, Lizzie, Carrie, and Jessie were Henry's children with his first wife Eliza. Fannie, "Rignal," and "Elizza May" Richards were Melissa's children with her first husband David Richards. Frank was Henry's and Melissa's son.

Marriage license: Jacob Bodmer, Jr. & Carrie M. Wiles, 20 Jan 1887, Washington Co., Maryland (license #225). Groom, age 22, resident of Middlebury, Loudoun Co., Virginia; bride, age 25, resident of Hagerstown. Image of original. Washington County Free Library, "Washington County MD Marriages 1887 (201-610).")

"—Mr. Jacob Bodmer, a resident of Middleburg, Va., was married Thursday morning at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, Hagerstown, to Miss Carrie Wiles, daughter of Mr. H. G. Wiles, of that place." ("Hymeneal," The News, Frederick, Maryland, 22 Jan 1887, p. 3.)

1900 U.S. Census, E. D. 52, Ward 1, Poolesville, Poolesville District, Montgomery Co., Maryland; dwelling 14, family 15, lines 64-76, p. 55B (printed), p. 1B (written), 4 Jun 1900.
64. Bodmer, Jacob, head, May 1856, 44, married 13 years; born in Virginia, parents in Germany; shoemaker.
65. ----- Carrie M., wife, May 1861, 39, married 13 years, 8 children (7 living); born in Maryland, parents in Virginia.
66. ----- Wm. H. L., son, Nov 1887, 12, Virginia, at school.
67. ----- Mary E., daughter, Jun 1890, 9, Virginia.
68. ----- Chas. R., son, Nov 1892, 7, Maryland, at school.
69. ----- "Clara J.," daughter, Dec 1893, 6, Maryland, at school.
70. ----- Minnie L., daughter, Jun 1895, 4, Maryland, at school.
71. ----- Jessie M., daughter, Nov 1897, 2, Maryland.
72. ----- George R., son, Apr 1899, 1, Maryland.
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1930 U.S. Census, E.D. 42, Ward 4, Mount Rainier, Chillum Twp., Prince Georges County, Maryland; dwellings 64-65, families 69-70, lines 91-93 & 94-95, p. 3B (written), 18 Apr 1930.
91. Campbell, Fred M., head, 27, age 23 at first marriage; self and parents born in Virginia; salesman, "Pigly Wigly Co."
92. ----- Jessie V., wife, 27, age 23 at first marriage; born in Maryland, father in Virginia, mother in Maryland; clerk, Treasury.
93. Bodmer, Carrie M., mother, 67, age 25 at first marriage; self and parents born in Maryland; [occupation:] none.
94. Chiswell, George W., head, 37, age 29 at first marriage, self and father born in Maryland, mother in D.C.; machinist, Navy Yard.
95. ----- Carrie B., wife, 36, age 28 at first marriage; self and mother born in Maryland, father in Virginia; [occupation:] none.
• Carrie Melissa Bodmer's eldest sister Laura Doretta Dayhoff (née Wiles), and younger, three-quarters sister, Bertha Olivia Bellman (née Wiles) also resided in Mount Rainier.

The submitter's mother, when a young child, met her great-aunt Carrie, recalling her as being proud of her Nelson family heritage and very proper—offended at being served a slice of pie for dessert on her used dinner plate, rather than on a clean dessert plate.

Reviewed 10 January 2022.