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CHAPTER XV.
JANE HESTER.
Emily Jane, daughter of John and Amelia Shofner, was born .July 3, 18:54. Being the youngest living child in the family, she had a rather careful girlhood, and was somewhat the pet, of the home. At the age of fourteen the father and mother took her to visit their Shofner relatives in Orange County, N. C., the trip being made by carriage and taking two weeks each way. A month was spent among relatives and friends, and she remembers now having visited an old battlefield of the Revolution.
At the age of twenty-two she married James M. Ward low, of Shelbvville, Tenn., April 24, 185(1. lie was a teacher; so they lived at several different places. In about two years a daughter, Emma, was horn unto them. Til a few years they bought a farm at Roseville, Tenn., where they resided for some time; but the home was to lie broken, for on October 4, 18(i0, Mr. Wardlow died. His wife then went to live with her brother, Loton Shofner, and his daughter, licttie, where she remained about ten years. During this time little Emma died, leaving her entirely alone in the world.
On November 2!), 1871, she was married to Wilford
E.	Coleman, a widower, having one grown son, Alex. Air. Coleman resided on a farm adjoining Mullins? Mill. Xow, after ten lonely and unhappy years, she was very