[5] In 1931, Bohanan married Florence Dulcia Coffer, a public school teacher, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

[5][9] At the time of his death, Bohanan was a teacher of music at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York.

[10] He died on December 6, 1932, in New York City and was buried in Washington, D.C.[5] Bohanan published several poems in the African American magazine, The Crisis, between 1914 and 1919.

"[11] Two of his poems were included in the influential anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922).

Ten of Bohanan's original musical scores are held in manuscript form at the University of Pennsylvania.