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Col. Lot on Slwfn-er.
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affections all the more toward these two hoys; and as time went on, he, with joyful eyes, saw them gradually grow into manhood. Then when Othniel marrh'd and two daughters came 011, it was Loton?s greatest delight to love and caress these children, for they were dear to his heart.
After the death of his first wife, .John W. Wells married Miss Margaret .Jenkins, daughter of Rev. William Jenkins and grand-daughter of Turley Euless, who was a sister to John Shofner. As his family after this marriage comes under another line of descent, which is in fhe hands of another committeeman, it is not traced further here.
The oldest son, Othniel I). Wells, married Irma Fay in 1888; and they, with their two daughters, Bessie and Mamie, now live in Nashville, where Mr. Wells is a building contractor.
William Shofner Wells, the second son, is in the fire-insurance business in San Francisco, Cal., where in 1809 he married Miss Marie Angelique Dutreux; and as a result of this union two sons were born, Loton Shofner (so named in honor of his great-grandfather) and William Bruce.
But the loneliness of Loton Shofner was not to continue always. After thirty-three years of single life, he married Mrs. Caroline Xcwton in 187!); and they lived happily together for twenty years, she surviving him three years.
In 1844 he was given a commission as colonel of militia by Gov. James C. Jones, and had under his command one of the strongest and best regiments in the State,