Ray Bohanon: Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

Generation: 1

Ray Bohanon was born 3 Sep 1903, Tennessee; died 10 Apr 1976; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Notes:

With Lillard Maples, built the Indian Gap Hotel just below the Chimneys.

Later built the Indian Gap Hotel and later changed name to Bohanan's Cabins.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 23.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 70, 260.

Ray married Dessa Padgett 1 Aug 1934, Sevier County, Tennessee. Dessa (daughter of Luther Thurman Padgett and Emma Blackstock) was born 8 Sep 1902, Tennessee; died 2 Dec 1986; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]