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A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY
OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN SHOFNER, FIFTH CHILD OF MARTIN SHOFNER, WHO WAS THE THIRD SON OF MICHAEL SHOFFNER, WHO CAME FROM GERMANY ABOUT 1760, LANDING AT PHILADELPHIA, AND THEN LOCATED IN NORTH CAROLINA.
An outline of ? The Pioneer Shoffners ? is given in order to trace the lineage back to the first family of the name to settle on American soil. Then, beginning with John and Amelia Shofner, who married in 1810, we have endeavored to trace out every descendant and give dates of births, deaths, marriages, and location, on down to the present.
Abbreviations are used wherever practical, as ? b ? for born, ? d ? for died, ? m ? for married, ? m 1 ? for married first, etc. Following the name and birth will be found the present address in parenthesis.
The children of John and Amelia Shofner are numbered with the Roman notation and go from I. to XII., and the children of John and Isabella Shofner run from XIII. to XV., inclusive. Then ten spaces to the right and two spaces below each other will be found the grandchildren of John Shofner numbered by capitals, thus ?(A),? ?(B),? etc.; and this list includes 53 names. Ten spaces farther to the right and marked ?(1),?