Andreas BOHE

                   NAME: Balthasar or Balthazar
                  

                   Frank and Elizabetha Bohe lived in Louisville, KY.
Reference: Izobel Bohe Riehl of Louisville, KY.  (In 1970, Barbara
Teemsma came across the name Frank Bohe in the Louisville, KY phone
book.  Mrs. Izobel Bohe Riehl, sister of Frank Bohe, wrote a letter.)
All information on the Frank Bohe line is from this source, unless
Noted.  Birth and death dates for Frank and Elizabetha Bohe from St.
John's Cemetery, Louisville, KY.
While it is possible that Frank Bohe was a brother or cousin of
of Ignatius Bohe, the surname Bohe also occurs in Germany, derived
from the surname Boche.
                  

                   Ignatius Bohe:  Birth & death dates per gravestone.
Kate Belle Bohe (family records) claimed he was born in "Mt.
Belair, Alsace, France" which is probably Montbeliard, located at
the southern end of Alsace.  She wrote that he died in Ottumwa and
is buried there, and that he was 42 years old (so born in 1931).
Reference: 1860 Census-- Ignatius was born in Baden, Germany, and
occupation was listed as plasterer.  Listed as age 28 (so born in
1831).  His wife Pauline was listed as age 23 (so born in 1836,
which is confirmed by her passport).

Reference:  Letter from Bert Bohe to his son (c.1951):  Ignatius
came to the US and first settled in Louisville, KY, then went on
to Franklin, Lee County, Iowa.  Ignatius and Pauline Zaffle Bohe
are buried in the Ottumwa Cemetery on Court St.  All the Bohes
were Catholics in the old country for hundreds of years.
Reference:  Attachment to the above letter:  Ignatius died when
his son John Thomas Bohe was 11 years old (1873).
Reference:  Ruth Bohe Miller (daughter of Kate Belle & Edward
John Bohe) 7-30-90:  Ignatius was thrown from a horse and killed,
and died when Edward John was 3 years old (1874).

Ignatius Bohe and Pauline Zaffle were married in the oldest
Catholic church in Louisville (Ref: Letter from Carl Bryan to
Harry Bryan, 26 Jan 1971.  Letter from Ruth Bohe Miller to her
sister Maxine, 6 Sep 1985, says she heard the same thing from her
father Edward John Bohe).  Letter from Carl Bryan says his mother
(Ignatius's daughter Pauline) told him that Ignatius was raised
in an orphanage, and that Carl's brother Paul said Ignatius was
raised by a French family near Metz, Lorraine, France; that he
was a skilled craftsman and artist, and did fancy rococo plaster-
ing work for decorative purposes.