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WILLIAM BODEN, miner, Turtle Creek, was born in Sedgley parish, Staffordshire, England, February 8, 1848, and is a son of John and Anna (Kempson) Boden. In 1860 the family came to America, and located for a time in Coultersville, this county. The father was a coal miner all his life, and was employed at Saw-Mill Run and Turtle Creek, coming to the latter place in 1872. For a short time in 1880 he was employed in Clearfield county, and died in November of that year, at the age of fifty-six years, from injuries inflicted by a kicking mule. Mrs. Boden died in 1876, at the age of forty-five years. The eldest child, Thomas, was killed in January, 1879, by a fall of coal in a mine at Alma, Wyo. The other children are William and Alida A. (Mrs. Charles Cupps) in Pittsburgh. William began mining coal when twelve years old, and managed to secure an ordinary education. He came to Turtle Creek in March, 1876, and six years later built his home. Mr. Boden married, July 12, 1870, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Rolens, who was born in South Shields, Durham, England, and their children now living are John, George Thomas, Charles Alexander, William Henry and Elizabeth May; William Edward and Alida C. died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Boden are members of the M. E. Church; he is a republican.