How President Garfield Monument became in the Bodie Cemetery!

~~~President Garfield’s - Bodie Masonic Cemetery -“Dedicated Monument” instead of William Bodey “cast-iron marker”!!

The “1881 proposed William Bodey grave-marker,” got changed from a simple “cast iron marker” to a “9-foot Granate Stone Monolith.”

~~~~Time passed, and the Bodie-town-folk forgot all about the idea of “the grave marker for Bodey.”

~~(Bodey’s remains were in an unknown, unmarked, unkept location in one of the three areas of the cemetery. Forgotten by all, “who had raised funds” for the grave and Monolith marker.)

~~~With President Garfields long lingering, suffering from an assassins bullet, and then his death on September 1881. The citizens of Bodie got swept up in the “national- mourning of the Garfields death.” The citizens sentiment changed and it was decided to “Dedicate the Monument" to the 20th President instead of the Mining districts founder William Bodey. 

~~William Bodey’s grave is still unknown and “unmarked,” and its “location is lost to history.”