Recently Susan Snyder asked some questions about John Deer's will. Let me make a start on these questions by going back to Volume 3, the Number 4 Issue (that was back in 1991) of Beyond Germanna , where an article appeared by Sally T. Baughn on "Eve Baumgardner Boughan". Sally related that she and her husband had been looking for the surname of his great (x4) grandfather's wife. Family members had been searching for more than sixty years.
In reading BG :1:5, Sally noted that Eve Baumgardner married, probably, Ambrose Bohannon. In all of Sally's research, she had found only one Eve, the wife of Mordecai Boughan. In the BG article, the Eve there had brothers Joel and Moses, and half-sisters Catherine and Susanna. Sally's Eve had children named Joel, Moses, Catherine, and Susanna. There was a Jeremiah and a Simeon Deer who could go with Eve's sons Jeremiah and Simeon.
Reading on, Sally was excited to find that John Deer had left a legacy to Eve Bohan, who was presumed to be the wife of Ambrose Bohannon, the co-executor of John Deer's will. Sally decided that Bohan was another version of the name Boughan. Sally enlisted the aid of the author of the article, Ardys Hurt, who could confirm (after a delay) that Eve Baugh was the daughter of Frederick and Catherine Baumgartner. The proof was a disposition made by Eve Vaughan/Baughan in March of 1828, wherein Eve stated she was a sister of Joel Bumgarner and Dolly Fleshman. This seemed to be the first that the disposition had come to light, perhaps because it was filed under "Pumgarner vs. Weaver". (Ardys gave credit to Gene Dear for finding this.)
Eve Baumgardner married Mordecai Boughan about 1771, as their first child was born in 1772. He died in 1792 and Eve did not remarry, but continued to operate and to improve his estate. Her will was written in 1829, and proved in 1835, with a settlement in 1838. Their children, named in both wills, were:
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