Bio: Bodle, David W. & Anna M. (Arrived in Spencer 1875)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Bodle, Groff, Thayer

Source: Spencer Centennial Book (1874 – 1974)

Anna M. Groff, who came to Wisconsin with her parents from Cranny Hill, Canada, married David W. Bodle in Hartford, Wisconsin. They came to Spencer in 1875, but left a few years later to manage hotels in Rib Lake and Medford. After his death, she returned to Spencer in 1904 and purchased the Thayer farm, where once stood the Thayer sawmill. She and her son, Harry, who operated the farm, and her daughter resided in the spacious Thayer homestead for many years.