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Shoffner History.
gaged as .soldiers in the War of the Revolution, serving in the North Carolina line. I have often, during my boyhood, sat and listened to my grandfather as he told us the story of those troublous times. He was a man of wonderful physical strength and great activity, even down to old age. One story he told us illustrates his great strength. He was a member of a regiment of cavalry. On one occasion a regiment of infantry being encamped near them, they sent a challenge to the cavalry to bring out their best man for a trial of strength and skill in wrestling, ({randfather was selected to meet their champion, and, after a trial, came off victor.
My father, John Shoffner, came to Tennessee during the spring of 180(5, in company with Clement and Newton Cannon, the latter afterwards becoming Governor of the State. They came on a surveying expedition. He remained about two years. On his return to North Carolina he married Amelia, the daughter of Michael Shoffner, on February 18, 1810. Michael and George Shoffner married and remained in North Carolina. Martin and Peter came to Bedford County, Tenn., in 1808. My father arrived in 1815. Grandfather and his brother, Peter, settled on Thompson's Creek. My father, John Shoffner, settled on Duck River, and died 07i the place he settled. He died January fi, 1857. He was born in Orange Comity, N. C., February 23, 1787. By his first marriage there were born in North Carolina two children?Joel, born in January, 1811; and myself, born December 26, 1813. There were born in Tennessee: Michael, who married Sophronia Morton; Polly, who married Thomas Boyers; Julia, who married George Morton; Daniel M., the youngest son,