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Joel Shoffner.
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born in 1S.'57. She married .John ('., Wooslev, who served in the Con federate Army during the war, and is now a prosperous farmer of lied ford County. They have no children. In religious belief they belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. Wooslev is a Democrat.
Daniel l?evton Shotfner was born in lSH!). In his young manhood he was engaged in the milling business in Bedford County for several years, after which ho sold out and went to I'nion City, and pursued the same business there for quite a while. Fire destroyed his plant several times, but he would rebuild with renewed courage. He finally moved to Memphis, still following the same business, where he died in 18!ir>, and was buried in that citv. He served in the Confederate Army during the war. After the war, he married Mary J toward; and from this union there were three children, two now living and located in Memjihis.
The sixth one is Martha (Mattie) Shotfner, who was married when quite young to .James Floyd. After the war broke out, Mr. Floyd joined the Federal troops at Murfreesboro, where he died in 1803, and was buried in the National Cemetery near that place. From this union was born .Jennie Floyd, who married Felix Z. King, a Cumberland l?resbyterian minister, now located at Merced, Cal. After the death of Mr. Floyd, his widow married Charm T. Clay, a farmer of Bedford County, who died in 1!MM). From this union there were eight children, all living and six married. Tinie is teaching at Wheel, Tenn.; and John is managing the home farm for his mother.
Thomas J. Sholl'ner, the next, was born in 1811, and