Terry and Bruce; Ran across this posting that describes the Bohannon's of Laclede County and yes there was a John Bohannon, I agree he was not the one that died in St Louis. I'll try to build a real family tree from this set of listings. Elijah's household location is well described.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/laclede/bios/b5500006.txt

John R.