Wiley H. Bohannon

THE FAMILY OF BOHANNON

Wiley H. Bohannon

Wiley H. Bohannon, a worthy resident and well known old citizen of Worth Township, Boone County, Indiana. He is a native of Stokes County, North Carolina, where his birth occurred upon the thirtieth day of September 1814. His father was Elliott Bohannon, also a native of North Carolina, and his mother, Sarah Yates, was born in the same state, and they married there and reared a family. Subsequently they emigrated to Indiana, locating in the county of Franklin, where they passed the remainder of their days. The following are the names of their seven children: Richard, William, Wiley H., Mary, Elizabeth and Elliott S. Frances.

Wiley H. Bohannon spent the first seventeen years of his life in the state of his nativity and about 1831 came with his parents to Franklin County, Indiana. He grew to manhood on a farm, attended, at intervals during his minority, such schools as the country afforded, and has always devoted his energies to the pursuit of agriculture. Miss Letty Yates, to whom he was united in marriage on the ninth day of July, 1837, was born January 1813, in North Carolina, the daughter of William and Martha (Durham) Yates, who came from the above state to Indiana as early as 1831. After his marriage Mr. Bohannon settled in Franklin County, where he lived until 1852, in the spring of which year he changed his residence to the county of Boone, purchasing his present farm in Worth Township, where he has since made his home. In his chosen calling, Mr. Bohannon has displayed most excellent judgment, and he believes that agriculture is one of the most honorable as well as most satisfactory occupation in which a man can engage. His farm is well improved, containing good buildings, and a greater part of his 106 acres is under a successful state of cultivation. Socially he commands the esteem of his fellow citizens of Worth and belongs to that large and eminently respectable class of people whose virtues and intelligence add luster to a community. By his first marriage he had seven children, only one of whom, James G., is living at this time. Mrs. Bohannon was called from the scenes of her earthly trails on the 23rd day of April, 1873. And August 10 of the same year Mr. Bohannon was united in marriage with Mrs. Phebe F. Smail, widow of Andrew Smail. To this marriage were born five children: Daniel W., Thomas W., Willis H., Martha J., and Wilburn R. In 1891 Mr. Bohannon’s home was again visited by the death angel on November of which year his wife died.

Source Citation: Boone County Biographies [database online] Boone County Genealogy, INGenWeb. 2007. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inboone> Original data: Department of Genealogy, Indiana State Library. “Boone and Clinton Counties of Indiana 1895,” IR-977.201-B724p, p.216.

Transcribed & Contributed by: Julie S. Townsend - September 7, 2007