The name Bodie Island is from the landowner and settler of the area. His name was spelled Body or Boddy. A more interesting "legend" is from the many shipwrecks(bodies) that washed ashore in the Outer Banks. Hence "Grave Yard of the Atlantic."
There is no evidence of anyone ever living there with any semblance of that name according to my study. Bodie is, however, an archaic way of spelling body. Bodie Island and Pea Island were connected until a hurricane split them in 1846, creating Oregon inlet. The newly formed island to the south was given the name Pea Island (now merged with Hatteras since 1933). North Carolina's first Lifesaving Station (a precursor of the Coast Guard) Chicamacomico, is located on Hatteras Island in Rodanthe. There were many shipwrecks in that area of the Atlantic at the confluence of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, once directly out from Chicamacomico. Much of that occurred at or near Diamond Shoals, where ships would run aground submerged shifting sand bars to be beaten to pieces by rough seas, often within sight of land... and many drowned sailors wound up on the shores along the Outer Banks. Legend though it may be, enough reality surrounding that legend occurred there to give it merit.
Yes, it was named after the family who owned the land.
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I believe it was named after a family that once owned the island.
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