Re: HENRY, PHILOMON,&MARY BOHANNON in Dooly Co.Ga.1850 ,
-
In reply to:
HENRY, PHILOMON,&MARY BOHANNON in Dooly Co.Ga.1850 ,
Belinda Wilson 4/27/04
Hi Belinda,
Henry Bohannon and Philomen Bohannon enumerated in the 1850 Dooly County, GA census were among the sons of Henry Bohannon (c1781-c1832) and his wife Mary of Laurens County, GA who moved from North Carolina with their family c1810.The Mary Bohannon (age 21), Sarah Bohannon (age 20), Frances Bohannon (age 19), Ellinder Bohannon (age 17), and Berniter Bohannon (age 14) emumerated in Dooly Co, GA in the 1850 census were I, believe, neices of Henry and Philomen Bohannon and were daughters of their brother William Bohannon (c1803-c1835) and his wife Mercy who had moved to Dooly County, GA in the mid 1830s along with his brothers Philomen Bohannon and John Bohannon.Philomen Bohannon, John Bohannon, and a Masey Bohannon were all enumerated in Dooly Cpunty in the 1840 cenus.William Bohannon died shortly after arriving in Dooly County and his widow Masey [Mercy] Bohannon was enumerated there in the 1840 census with five daughters in age brackets which correspond to the five orphaned sisters enumerated there in 1850.Their mother appears to have died sometime in the late 1840s, as she was enumerated as a head of household in the special Dooly County census taken in 1845. John Bohannon (who is my wife's gggrandfather) married Harriet Riggins [Regan] in 1822 in Laurens County, GA and, after his brief sojourn in Dooly County, GA, moved to Pulaski (now Dodge) County, GA near his mother and brother James Bohannon, where he remained the rest of his life and where he died in 1885.Henry Bohannon (c1810-c1854) appears to have never married and had gone into business in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, GA with brother James Bohannon in the 1840s, but ran into financial difficulties and moved briefly to Dooly where he was enumerated in the 1850 census, but was back in Pulaski County by 1854 where James Bohannon is shown in tax listings as administrator of some slaves owned by Henry Bohannon.A sister oif thes Bohannon brothers was the Frances Moore (wife of West E. Moore) also enumerated in the 1850 Dooly County census nearby Philomen and Henry Bohannon.They were married on 19 Jan 1840 in Pulaski County, GA where her mother Mary had moved after the death of her husband Henry Bohannon in 1832.
Ed Dittmer
Lake Lure, NC
More Replies:
-
Re: HENRY, PHILOMON,&MARY BOHANNON in Dooly Co.Ga.1850 ,
Susan Ten Eyck 5/20/07