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Shoffner History.
would meet; and they appreciated, honored, and loved him. He had a most pleasant disposition, was very jolly and good-natured, and every one enjoyed his conversations. Before the war he voted with the Whig party; and when that party disintegrated, he cast his lot with the Republicans.
He and his wife belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at ? Three Forks ? for a number of years, but she finally moved her membership to the Lutheran Church then called ?Cedar Hill;? but the church has been moved since, and is now known as ?Jenkins? Chapel.? They would often camp for weeks during the big ? camp meetings ? held in those days, erecting shanties and taking a cook and plenty of provisions along. One day the little boys, among them Hugh and Finis, were playing on top of the shanty, when Finis rolled off, but was not hurt badly, owing to the short distance. He claimed that the other boys pushed him off, but they would not acknowledge it.
Out of fifteen children born unto Michael Shoffner and his first wife, they reared four boys and seven girls. Jacob M. Shofner, the eldest son, served in the Confederate Army in Company A, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, under Captain Terry. Besides being a prosperous farmer, he was one of the promoters of the Bedford County Fair, and is now a large stockholder in the same. He was appointed by Governor Frazier as one of the World?s Fair Commissioners to represent Tennessee at St. Louis. As a business man, he has been a success, and is now president of the Peoples? National Bank, of Shelbyville, Tenn. In 18(i2 he married Melissa F. Landis, and they now have three daughters?