Display Patriot - P-329745 - William BOHANNON/BOHANON

William BOHANNON/BOHANON

SAR Patriot #: P-329745

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A011792

Birth: 17 Jan 1729 Henry / Middlesex / VA
Death: 13 Mar 1816 / White / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. MARCHED TO GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, MILITIA
  2. TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Additional References:

HILL, HIST OF HENRY CO, VA, pg 14, 304


Spouse: (1) Edith Judith Legg; (2) XX XX;
Children: Alice; Lewis; Judith;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1998-07-06 KS 1101 Marion Leo Marrs (146927) Judith   
2015-09-18 KY 65008 George Geoffrey Baggett (187253) Alice   
2019-08-23 TN 88053 John De Wayne Bratcher (212702) Alice   
2020-08-21 TN 93582 Michael Clarke Bratcher (216683) Alice   
2020-08-21 TN 93583 John Paul Bratcher (216684) Alice   
Burial:
Bohannon (aka James Bohannon) Cemetery (C-0008611)
Location:
Algood / Putnam / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
9437
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
16156583
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

vertical stone - Photo by permission: George Geoffrey Baggett, Kentucky Society SAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: George Geoffrey Baggett
William Bohannon was born probably in Middlesex County, Virginia, around the year 1730. He lived in Culpeper, Augusta, Pittsylvania, Henry and Franklin counties at various times in his life. Family tradition holds that he married his first wife, Ruth, in 1753. This first wife died around 1772 and he later married Judith Legg in 1773.

By the time of the Revolutionary War he was in Henry County, where he rendered Patriotic Service by taking the Oath of Allegiance to Virginia. He also served in the Henry County, Virginia, Militia and answered the call to march to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

After the war he and his family remained in Virginia for several years before moving westward to Tennessee. He filed land papers in Blount County in 1805, then mover further westward to White County (now Putnam) by 1815. He died there on March 13, 1816, and rests in the Bohannon Cemetery. His wife died some time after 1820, when she last appeared in the U.S. census. She rests in an unmarked grave beside her husband.

The names of sixteen of William Bohannon's children and the birth dates of eleven of them appear in the application of Mrs. Fanalue Whitson Carlen of Cookeville, TN, on 04 April 1930 for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution:

Frances Bohannon 1- 5-1753
John Bohannon 4-27-1755
Joshua Bohannon 12- -1757 Married Rhoda Cook (Abraham, Son)
William Bohannon 12- -1760
Anna Bohannon 11-30-1762
Henry Bohannon 7- 7-1767 Married Mary -----
Elizabeth Bohannon 5-20-1769
Lucy Bohannon 9-27-1771
(2nd) Judith Bohannon 9- -1774 Married Isaac Welch
James Bohannon 9-12-1777
Alice Bohannon 1-23-1779 Married Thomas Barnes
Susannah Bohannon
Rebecca Bohannon
Holla Bohannon
Lewis Bohannon
Elijah Bohannon

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Additional Information:

DAR NOTE -EL - DATES OF BIRTH, AGES OF JUDITH & HER HUSBAND ISAAC WELCH QUESTIONED - Dec 2002



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