BOHANNAN/BOHANNON/BOHANON GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


I learned of my connection to the Bohannans after studying the early history of the Neville family in the United States. There are a number of branches of Bohannans/Bohannons in the U.S., and I believe many of them are descended from Dunkin Bohannan, my ancestor, who married Cecily Collmore.

Also of interest, is that quite a number of Bohannons settled near Conway, Laclede County, Missouri, where my wife's family lives. One of the pastors of First Baptist Church in Conway (where my in-laws attend church) for many years was Elvin Bohannon. I also have worked with Joyce Bohannon (Elvin's wife) for several years in conjunction with H. & R. Block. In fact, Joyce was the teacher of the tax class I took several years ago with H. & R. Block. My wife also graduated from Conway High School with their son, John Bohannon, in 1977.

Another point of interest is that a number of Bohannons also settled in Madison County, Arkansas and intermarried with Callicos, Ledbetters, and other families connected to my wife's relatives who settled there. I'd like to find a definite connection with these Missouri and Arkansas Bohannons, but as yet, that connection eludes me.

Here in Springfield, Missouri, where I live is a Mrs. Peggy BOHANON, who is a member of the Assemblies of God. She has a wonderful web page devoted to families and to Christianity and the Pentecostal movement. It is called �Peggy�s Place.� It is worth visiting, although she doesn�t mention anything about genealogy. She is a dear lady.

Because of my research on the Bohannan family, in February of 1997 I started a Bohannon E-Mail List sponsored with Indiana University and later through Rootsweb. Because of other commitments, I turned this list over to Elizabeth Veserat. This list really took off with lots of Bohannon researchers coming together to share ideas and information. Later that year I also became the founding president of the Neville Heritage Society which publishes the Neville Heritage Review and has a very active presence on the World Wide Web and other places as far as genealogy research on the Neville family in North America and abroad. The Nevilles and Bohannons intermarried twice in my lineage, and there are quite a few Neville researchers who are also tracing and working on the Bohannon line.

Here is my BOHANNAN lineage here in the U.S. which includes a double lineage as two Nevilles married two Bohannans:

  1. Dunkin BOHANNAN, Sr., b. ca. 1637 Scotland, d. aft. 1678 Gloucester Co., VA; md. 5 July 1658 at St. Michael's, Barbados to Cecily COLLMORE
  2. Elizabeth BOHANNAN (sister of Joseph Bohannan, below), b. ca. 1665 VA, d. ? VA; md. ca. 1685 Isle of Wight Co., VA to John NEVILLE, Sr. (brother of Elizabeth Neville, below), b. ca. 1661 Northampton Co., VA, d. ca. 1733 VA;

    Joseph BOHANNAN (Buchanan) (brother of Elizabeth Bohannan, above), b. bef. 1684 Gloucester Co., VA; md. Elizabeth NEVILLE (sister of John Neville, above), b. ca. 1691 Gloucester Co., VA
  3. Joseph NEVILLE, Sr. (son of John NEVILLE, Sr. & wife Elizabeth BOHANNAN), b. ca. 1707 Isle of Wight Co., VA, d. aft. 1790 Hardy Co., VA; md. ca. 1729 in VA to Ann BOHANNAN, b. ca. 1710 VA, d. ca. 1777 Hampshire Co., VA (daughter of Joseph BOHANNAN and wife Elizabeth NEVILLE) (This makes Joseph and Ann double first cousins.)
  4. Joseph NEVILLE, Sr., b. ca. 1707 Isle of Wight Co., VA, d. ca. 1792 Hardy Co., VA; md. ca. 1729 in VA to Ann BOHANNAN, b. ca. 1710 VA, d. ca. 1777 Hampshire Co., VA
  5. Mary NEVILLE, b. ca. 1730 VA, d. aft. 1790 TN; md. ca. 1747 VA to Thomas DODSON (Second Fork), b. 3 Oct. 1728 Richmond Co., VA, d. 1811 Hawkins Co., TN
  6. Agatha DODSON, b. Dec. 1749 VA, d. Nov. (aft. 1830) Maury Co., TN; md. bef. 1769 to Moses HANKS, b. 15 July 1746 Richmond Co., VA, d. 19 Aug. 1831 Maury Co., TN
  7. Elizabeth HANKS, b. 9 Sept. 1782 Pittsylvania Co., VA, d. 1833 Maury Co., TN; md. 1 June 1799 Lincoln Co., KY to Robert WILLIAMS, b. 1776 VA, d. 1837 Maury Co., TN
  8. Agatha WILLIAMS, b. 2 June 1802 Maury Co., TN, d. 13 July 1874 McNairy Co., TN; md. 22 Sept. 1817 Columbia, Maury Co., TN to James Matthew WOOLVERTON, b. 12 May 1797 Somerset, Pulaski Co., KY, d. 24 July 1878 McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Woolverton Cemetery near Adamsville, Tennessee)
  9. Nancy Artemisia WOOLVERTON, b. 28 Aug. 1829 Maury Co., TN, d. 24 Jan. 1926 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN; md. 28 Dec. 1848 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS to Luther Rice LITTLEFIELD, b. 25 Dec. 1826 Spartanburg, Spartansburg Co., SC, d. 25 Mar. 1903 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Adamsville Cemetery)
  10. Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  11. James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, OK; md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, TX
  12. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, CO *These are my grandparents.



BOHANNON E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the Bohannan/Bohannon surname, you may post these at the Bohannon Family Genealogy List that I started, but which now is managed by Elizabeth Veserat.

Bohannon Genealogy List is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Bohannon surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Bohannon e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in BOHANNON for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in BOHANNON you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letter of the month.



ROOTSWEB BOHANNAN MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the BOHANNAN surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Bohannan Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any BOHANNAN name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.



ROOTSWEB BOHANNON MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the BOHANNON surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Bohannon Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any BOHANNON name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.



ROOTSWEB BOHANON MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the BOHANON surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Bohanon Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any BOHANON name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.



An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been setup specifically for the BOHANNAN family. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/bohannan

< An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been setup specifically for the BOHANNON family. It can be found at the following address:
    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/bohannon

An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been setup specifically for the BOHANON family. It can be found at the following address:
    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/bohanon

font color="red">***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the BOHANNAN/BOHANNON/BOHANON lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.


BOHANNON WEB PAGES

Some other Bohannan/Bohannon web sites include:
    Wayne Stafford's Web Page

Some other Bohannan/Bohannon researchers who have helped me include:

    Bill Scroggins.

    Elizabeth Veserat.

    Brian Walls who descends from the Nevilles and Bohannans through his connection with the Dodson family.

    Michelle Ule who also descends from the Nevilles and Bohannans through the Dodsons.

    Jeanne Barton who is also a descendant of the Nevilles and Bohannans.


Copyright � 1998-2004.

Last updated November 10, 2004.


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