Drina and around the town of Soko. Bobovac began his mission together with the abovementioned chiefs at the end of February, 1830. In April he already came into conflict with the Muslims whom Husein Pasha from Belgrade had called upon by decree (buruntia) to return to their former estates and continue to farm them as they had before the eviction. Until August of the same year Muslims returned en masse to the Soko district, and by January 1831 they had practically all returned. During that time Bobovac had several conflicts with these, who wrote to Prince Miloš about it on March 9/21 threatening that they "will not leave until there are dead bodies". Despite the complex situation, Bobovac managed to complete the task entrusted to him by Miloš in 1831, but at the cost of a serious conflict with some of the Muslim chiefs which was to have tragic consequences for him and his life several months later. Last years and death Although Bobovac, according to his contemporaries, was an exceptionally "great friend of Prince Miloš", towards the end of his lifetime he supported the defenders of the Serbian Constitution in their wish to restrict Miloš's absolutism. Records suggest that Bobovac fell into disfavour with Miloš. But that fact has to this day failed to shed light on the exact cause of his sudden death on July 14/26, 1832. Namely, after Bobovac was ambushed by a never identified group of people, who could more probably have been Muslims from the Soko district seeking revenge due to Bobovac's role in their relocation to Bosnia, Bobovac died from his wounds, at the age of 67. He was buried on July 15/27, 1832 by the church in Kamenica near Valjevo, his endowment. Legacy In the villages beneath the Medvednik is still taught the tale of the "Church built by knez Jovan Simić Bobovac, but burned down by the Turks after the failure of the First Serbian Uprising (1804)", when the local people fled to the mountain. It is also mentioned in the Memoirs of protoiereus Mateja Nenadović, and the letters he exchanged with prince Miloš Obrenović have also been preserved in the Serbian Archive. Today there are five households in the Simić hamlet in the village of Bobova. The descendants of knez Jovan Simić Bobovac mostly live in Bobova (the Radisav–Simić family), Valjevo, Belgrade and Brussels (the families of Desanka Maksimović, Vasilije Simić