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The Ancestry of Johann Diel BOHN (1711-1764) and Johann Henrich BOHN / DILBONE (1724-1786) Chaplain (Colonel) Dan Franklin 2007 CONTENTS Preface……………………………………………………………………………………. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………. 1 Johann Diel BOHN 1711-1764…………………………………………………………... 3 The BOHN Family Of Nussbaum………………………………………………………. 5 Johann Dielman BOHN b.1682, Nussbaum……………………………………………. 8 Other Possible Ancestors Johann Nikolas BOHN b.1680, Boos…………………………………………………. 13 Johann Anton BOHN b.1686, Nussbaum…………………………………………....... 14 Hans Culmann BOHN b.1660, Nussbaum……………………………………………. 14 Joahannes Dielmann BOHN b.1671, Nussbaum……………………………………… 14 Peter Diehl BOHN b.1 Jan 1677, Boos…………………………………………………. 16 Conclusions……………………………………………………………………………….. 19 APPENDIX 1 Boone DNA Project……………………………………………………... 21 APPENDIX 2 Bohn Documents Document 1 Monzingen 18 April 1710 Johann Nickol DING…………………........ 22 Document 2 Boos 23 December 1717 Johann Thiellman BOHN…………………... 23 Document 3 Sobernheim 16 March 1722 Johann Philipp BOHN………………..…. 24 Document 4 Niederhausen 12 August 1725 Anna Maria BOHN…………………… 25 Document 5 Obermoschel 16 March 1702 Peter Diehl BOHN and Anna Christiana EBHARD……………………………………………………………….. 26 Document 6 Obermoschel 23 September 1708 Johann Friederich Tillmann BOHN 26 Document 7 Obermoschel 5 May 1715 Johann Frederich Tillmann BOHN….......... 27 Document 8 Obermoschel 13 March 1720 Peter Tielmann BOHN and Anna Elisabetha MÜLLER…………………………………………………… 27 Document 9 Obermoschel 13 October 1724 Johann Henrich BOHN…………......... 28 Document 10 Obermoschel 30 January 1729 Johann Peter BOHN…………………. 28 Document 11 Unkenbach 1740……………………………………………………...... 29 Document 12 Frederick County, Maryland 1 Nov 1761 Will of Johann Diel BOHN 30 APPENDIX 3 Descendants of Hans Peter BOHN………………………………………. 32 APPENDIX 4 Descendants of Hans Cullman BOHN…………………………………… 39 APPENDIX 5 Descendants of Johann Diel BOHN……………………………………… 44 APPENDIX 6 Descendants of Johann Henrich BOHN (Henry DILBONE)……………. 63 REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………………… 66 INDEX…………………………………………………………………………………….. 70 ii iii PREFACE When I started my hobby of genealogy in 1989, one of the first items of interest on my wife’s family history was the tradition that they were related to the famous Daniel Boone. It did not take long to discover that even though her Boone family was very interesting, it was not the same family as the famous Daniel Boone. After discovering the manuscript written by Nellie Whedon, I confirmed most of the information relating to my wife’s line and found additional information about her direct line. I focused my research primarily on my wife’s direct ancestral line and did very limited research on the other children of Johann Diel BOHN. My wife’s line is: Johann Diel BOHN b.1711 and Mary ______ Jacob BOON b.1749, MD and Catherine ______ Abraham BOONE b.1779, MD and Mary EHRMAN John BOONE b.1806, Rockingham Co, VA and wife Abigail LESH Julia Ann BOONE b.1843, Wabash Co, IN and Thomas D. PACE Myra PACE b.1876, Polk Co, TX and William Henry BROCK William Lester BROCK b.1902, Polk Co, TX and Lora Bell SCHAMERHORN Thomas Allen BROCK b.1928, Polk Co, TX and Naomi WIGGINS Connie BROCK b.1953, Liberty Co, TX I was assigned as an Army Chaplain in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2005 and remembered that Nellie Whedon mentioned that the seat of the BOHN family was Obermoschel. Since that was only about 40 minutes from Kaiserslautern, I decided to take a trip there and thus began my journey to find the parents of Johann Diel BOHN. My first contact in Germany was Gernot Bohn of Bad Sobernheim, Germany. He is a descendant of the BOHN family of Nussbaum and had done some internet postings dealing with the BOHN family in America. He had collected a lot of family information and pointed me in the right direction for my research. I had some very serious handicaps to my research. I do not speak German and the old German script is very difficult to read. The Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Kaiserslautern was a great resource. Although several individuals helped me there, two were especially critical to my work. Herr Horst Debold transcribed many of the records and was essential in helping me understand many of the documents. Frau Margareta Kneissel worked with Herr Debold and translated many of the documents. It would have been almost impossible for me to have done this research without their assistance. I was very fortunate to make contact with Dr. Udo Krauthasen in Germany. His wife is a descendant of the BOHN family of Nussbaum and he did extensive research on the BOHN family. His work was critical to my research into the BOHN family and he provided many suggestions and corrections to my research. I decided to capitalize the surnames of individuals directly connected to the BOHN, including those married into the family. When quoting directly from a text, I used the spelling and capitalization as it was in the text. The various spellings of the names are confusing, but I’ve tried to accurately reflect the spellings in the various documents. I included an appendix that lists the descendants of Hans Peter BOHN and one listing the descendants of Hans Cullman BOHN. These are not meant to be exhaustive lists of all the iv BOHN descendants, but limited mainly to those relevant to finding the parents of Johann Diel BOHN. Since the names are very similar, it can be confusing following the family line. Hopefully these appendixes will help the reader distinguish between the various BOHN family members. I included the list of descendants of Johann Diel BOHN in order to help his descendants see how they might connect to the family. I only included three generations in order to limit the length of the appendix. Adding even a fourth generation would have greatly expanded the length of the appendix. I was at first reluctant to include this appendix. The information on the descendants of Johann Diel BOHN is not as precise as the BOHN family in Germany. Many of the birth, marriage and death records do not exist. Nellie (Woods) Whedon provided significant information on the first three generations of BOHN descendants in her article. Additional information came from census data and internet postings, primarily located at Ancestry.com. The original intent of this article did not include researching the ancestors of the immigrant Johann Henrich BOHN or Henry DILBONE. Since his family is part of this same BOHN family in Germany, I came across a large amount of information on his immediate family and decided to include that information in the article. I also included an appendix listing the first three generations of the descendants of Johann Henrich BOHN in America. Like the appendix on Johann Diel BOHN, it is also not as precise as I would like. This information also came mainly from census data and internet postings, primarily located at Ancestry.com. The German towns of origin for the BOHN family are located in the Pfalz region of Germany. Because the designated regions and even the national association of these towns have changed over the years, I am only listing the name of the town and not the region of the towns in the article. I would appreciate any comments, corrections or additions to this article. I am still active duty at the time of the writing of this article and move frequently. The best way to reach me is at: [email protected] or [email protected] v vi vii Introduction Nellie (Woods) Whedon wrote a 40 page unpublished article in 1945 entitled The German Bohne-Bohn-Boon-Boone Family: Descendants of Johann Diel Bohne of Maryland 1711-1764.1 Her article was based upon the earlier work of Dr. John Calvin Wright, who at the time of Ms. Whedon’s article was the Assistant U.S. Commissioner for Vocational Education in Washington D.C. Their work clearly established the connection between the BOON families of Franklin and Montgomery counties in Virginia and the BOON family of Frederick County, Maryland. The will of Johann Diel BOHN written 1 November 1761 and filed in Frederick County, Maryland on 13 April 1764 was crucial to identifying the children of Johann Diel BOHN. This research clearly disproved the tradition that the BOON family of Franklin County, Virginia was related to the famous Daniel Boone, and proved that this BOON family was actually a separate German BOON family. The primary purpose of this article is to examine evidence surrounding the possible place of origin of Johann Diel BOHN and his parents. Ms. Whedon gave an indication of his place of origin writing, “The seat of the German Boone family is said to have been in the Palatinate Province of Pfalz, near the village of Obermoschel, 20 or 25 miles southwest of the town of Mainz, and on the banks of a small stream which empties into the Rhine, due north.”2 This location is highlighted by the rectangle on the map to the left. She based her identification of the place of origin of the BOHN family on the research of John Calvin Wright. Erich Bohn and Ernst Boehlich also referenced John Calvin Wright in Das Buch Bohn (The Bohn Book) written in 1940. They indicated that Johann Diel BOHN came from the Pfalz region of Germany and associated him with Peter Diehl BOHN of Obermoschel.3 The place of origin of this BOHN family is actually Nußbaum (Nussbaum), within about 15 miles of Obermoschel. In the early eighteenth century Obermoschel was part of the dukedom Paltinate Deux Ponts (Herzogtum Pfalz Zweibrücken). Nussbaum (after 1715) was in the Palatinate Province of Kreuznach (Kurpfälzisches Oberamt Kreuznach). The legal and church records for these communities are maintained in different state and church regional archives. The search of the ancestry of Johann Diel BOHN must start with Nussbaum and then spread to other communities in the area.

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