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Michael Shoffner.
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Laura SholVner married Morgan ('. Webb in lSTli. He is now a successful farmer, owning valuable lands on Duck River, four miles from Shelbyville, Tenn., when; lie and his family reside.
.Jennie SholTner married Gideon Brown in 1S77, and moved to Missouri, where they lived until she died, in 1SS7. Their daughter, .Jessie, now lives in Fulton, Mo.; and he and the other children are at De Vail?s IllulT, Ark.
Cora Shoffner, the youngest of the seven girls, married Thomas B. Carpenter; and they now live in Galena, Kan., where he owns large' mining interests. They have o-two (laughters and one son.
Michael Sholl'ner?s first wife, Sophronia, died in 1ST.-); and in 1877 he married Harriet Berry, who survived him seven years.
Michael Sholl'ner died at the residence of his son, Hugh L. Shotl'ner, five miles east of Shelbyville. in lSll'i. His health had heen failing for some months; hut when his condition was seemingly improved, he was removed from his home at Tullahoma, 'I'enn., to his son's, with the hope that the chang(i would he. beneficial. He was born .July 28, ISIS, and was nearly seventy-four years old at the time he died, lie was well and favorably known throughout his county and adjoining counties, was an active business man, and i>opular with everybody. His heart was full of generous impulses, and he had a smile and a kind word for every one. He was a ruling elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was true to his moral and religious convictions. Few men in this life have scattered more sunshine along the pathway of others than the beloved subject of this sketch.