Bohannon.William.1842.Hart.BIO

William T. Bohannon b.1842 Biographies
History of Harrison and Mercer Counties, MO, 1888, Goodspeed, p. 490

     William T. Bohannon, M.D., was born in Hart County, Ky., December 7,
1842, and is a son of Rev. George C., and Malinda J. (Nevill) Bohannon, who
were married August 11, 1826, and located upon a farm in Hart County, Ky.;
subsequently the father entered the ministry in the Missionary Baptist
Church.  The moved to Barren County, of that State, several years before
their death.  The father died September 9, 1844, while returning home from an
association held at Bowling Green, Ky., and the mother died in July, 1878.
 William T. is the youngest of eight children, and passed his boyhood upon
the farm, during which time he received a common-school education.  In the
fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-first Regiment, Kentucky
Volunteer Infantry, and served until 1865, when he was discharged at
Louisville, Ky.  He participated in the battles of Stone River, Tunnel Hill,
Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and the Atlanta campaign as far as Jonesboro.
 After the war he graduated at the commercial school in Jacksonville, Ill.,
and studied several years in Hart County, Ky.  In the fall of 1869, he
entered the Louisville Medical College, from which he graduated in February
1871.  He then commenced the practice of his profession at Rowlett's Station,
Hart Co., Ky.  After practicing about five years in Kentucky he moved to
Harrison County, Mo., in the summer of 1876, and located at Eagleville, where
he has been successful in his medical career.  October 7, 1877, he married
Miss Sallie Morrison, of La Rue County, Ky., by whom he has had two children:
 Verda R., born August 2, 1878, and Clement L., born August 16, 1880.  Dr.
Bohannon is a Democrat, and himself and wife belong to the Missionary Baptist
Church.



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1997