Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest Pending Changes


I descend from William Bohannon who died in White County, TN, in 1816:
	William Bohannon		= (1) ?
	John Bohannon			= Helen Cook 1774 VA
	William Bohannon		= Jennie Wilcoxson 1808 KY
	Pamelia Bohannon		= Benjamin Scrogin 1833 KY
	William Samuel Scrogins 	= Mary Edna Wade 1866 KY
	William Benjamin Scroggins	= Sciota Rebecca Young 1901 KY
	Garnett Franklin Scroggins	= Mary Emeline Martin 1919 KY
	William Gilbert Scroggins	= Patricia Ann Jones 1944 KY
Although I am basically a straight line family genealogist, I have accumulated information on other branches, which in this case indicates the parentage of Henry Bohannon who married Amelia Shotwell. Here are the pertinent Family Group sheets from my records, which contain much more information in narrative form:
272. HENRY BOHANNON
	Born
	Died 28 Jul 1740 Middlesex County, Virginia 
	Married 273. Ann Booten
		Born 
		Died
	Children:
	   136. William Bohannon
		b.       c1730
		d.         1816 White County, Tennessee
		m. (1) 137. ----- ------ before 1753
		     (2) Judith ------ before 1774

		Henry Bohannon Jr 
		b. before 1740 
		d.            1808 Pittsylvania County, Virginia 
		m. (1) Susanna Fretwell
		     (2) Nancy Baynes

		John Bohannon 
		b. 17 Sep 1740 Middlesex County, Virginia 
		d. 
		m.
The parents of Henry Bohannon (Sr.), who died in Middlesex County, Virginia, on 28 July 1740, leaving brothers, Joseph and George, who declined to act as executors of his will in Middlesex County Court on 02 December 1740, have not been determined, but his father must have been either John or Joseph Bohannon, who were residents of Gloucester County, Virginia, in 1704. Ann Booten was a daughter of Joshua Booten (Boughton). She married (2) Robert Tureman and went to Culpeper County, Virginia, where Tureman died about 1754.
HENRY BOHANNON JR
	Born before 1740
	Died bet 10 Aug & 21 Dec1807 Pittsylvania County, Virginia
	Married (1) Susanna Fretwell
		Born 
		Died after 1786
	Children (1) (order of birth unknown):
		Mary Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m.

		Joseph Bohannon 
		b.             1755 
		d. 	    1825 Barren County, Kentucky 
		m. Elizabeth Baynes

		Henry Bohannon III 
		b.           c1760 
		d.           c1842 Sevier County, Tennessee 
		m. (1) Amelia Shotwell
		     (2) Rachel ------

		Nathaniel Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Elizabeth Corbin

		Nancy Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m.

		John Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Susannah Yates 17 Jan 1797 Halifax County, Virginia

		Alexander Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Mary Hill               1796 Pittsylvania County, Virginia

		Ambrose Bohannon 
		b.              c1795
		d.                1868
		m. Elizabeth Marrable

	Married (2) Nancy Baynes
		Born 
		Died after  1834
	Children (2) (order of birth unknown):
		Ludwell Bohannon 
		b.            c1797 
		d. 25 Mar 1845 Warren County, Kentucky 
		m. Elizabeth Pratley

		Rebecca Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. John Russell

		Dorothy "Dolly" Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Thomas Wiles

		Booten Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Nancy Slaydon 19 Oct 1819 Pittsylvania County, PA

		Henrietta "Ritta" Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Stephen Barker             1825

		Thomas Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m.

		Margaret "Peggy" Bohannon 
		b. 
		d. 
		m. Thornton Walters

		Yancey Bohannon 
		b.        c1805
		d. 
		m. Martha Cox
Henry Bohannon, who married (1) Susanna Fretwell and (2) Nancy Baynes, was the son of Henry Bohannon and Ann Booten. Susannna Fretwell was a daughter of William and Mary Fretwell. Nancy Baynes was a daughter of John Baynes and Mary Yancey of North Carolina.
HENRY BOHANNON III
	Born	1760 Virginia
	Died	1842 Sevier County, Tennessee
	Married (1) Amelia Shotwell
		Born        c1760 Virginia 
		Died before 1825 Sevier County, Tennessee
	Children (1):
		Susannah Bohannon 
		b.           1793 
		d. 
		m. Isaac Ogle

		Nancy Bohannon 
		b.          1795 
		d. 
		m. William Ogle

		James Bohannon 
		b.          1800 
		d.        c1824 Sevier County, Tennessee 
		m. Esther (Easter) Ogle c1822 Sevier County, Tennessee

		Henry Bohannon IV 
		b.             1803 
		d. 29 Aug 1877 Sevier County, Tennessee 
		m. Catherine Powell           c1825 Sevier County, Tennessee

		William Bohannon 
		b.             1805 
		d. 
		m.

		Sarah Bohannon 
		b.             1807 
		d. 
		m. William Thomas Ogle

	Married (2) Rachel ------
		Born             1795 Tennessee 
		Died after     1850
	Children (2):
		Evans Bohannon 
		b.                 1829 
		d. after         1880 
		m. Martha Jane ------             c1845 Sevier County, TN

		Martha Jane Bohannon 
		b.                 1832 
		d. 
		m.

It has been considered that Henry Bohannon (1760-1842) of Sevier County, Tennessee, was Henry Bohannon III. He married (1) Amelia (Amillia) Shotwell in Virginia and moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, during the period 1795-1805, where he settled in the area of Middle Creek and Pigeon Forge, a few miles from Seviersville. He married (2) Rachel ------ and died there about 1842. In November 1817 the Forks of Little Pigeon Church met with some people from White Oak Flats and agreed to hold a meeting for receiving new members at "Henry Bohanon's place" in White Oak Flats, which is near Gatlinburg. In December 1817, when the White Oak Flats Baptist Church was formed as an arm of Little Pigeon Church in Seviersville, Amelia Bohannon (Amillia Bohanon), wife of Henry, was listed as a charter member. Family records spell the name Bohanon.

Although proof has not been found, generational chronology and the use of the name, Susannah, for his first daughter, suggests that Henry Bohannon who married Amelia Shotwell was the son of Henry Bohannon and Susanna Fretwell. The fact that Alexander Bohannon also moved to Sevier County supports that probability.

William Scroggins


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