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Home Life.
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In his associations, John Shofner was thrown with such men as Nimrod Burrow, Martin Euless, Hon. Edmund Cooper (now of Shelbyville), .Major Landis, William (Bud) Young, Col. James Mullins, Charles Cannon, Clement Cannon, Iiev. William Jenkins, Rev. Jeif. King, and many others, all of whom were factors in molding Bedford County.
In his religious belief he was a Lutheran, having 1 >eerj,-brought up in that faith from early youth. 11 is father, Martin Shofner, being a devout Lutheran before him, donated the land for the old cemetery near " Shofner Church? (so named in honor of Martin Shofner), on Thompson's Creek. Likewise, John Shofner gave the land for the cemetery and for the erection of a Lutheran Church where ?Jenkins? Chapel ? now stands (so named in memory of Rev. William Jenkins, who served the Lutheran congregations in Tennessee faithfully from 1828 until his death, in 1877).
In 1X51 John Shofner married Mrs. Isabella Reavers, a widow with two children; and at his death, in 1857, these two children were among the most grief-stricken, mourning his loss as if an own parent. From this union three children were born, two living now?Mrs. Relle Coleman and John C. Shofner; the third, Isabella, died in infancy.
After living a long, useful life, John Shofner died on January (I, 1857, at the advanced age of seventy years; and his remains now rest in the cemetery at Jenkins? Chapel, near his old home place. A tall shaft stands imposingly over his grave; and beside him sleep the remains of his iirst wife, Amelia, who came with him from North Carolina. Gathered around these