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Shoffner History.
joined the Southern cause; and another son-in-law, .lames S. Floyd, went to the Northern side. Later on in the war Michael R. joined the Union Army, making two brothers on one side and two on the other.
Joel and Matilda Shofl'ner reared a family of ten children?seven sons and three daughters?to manhood and womanhood; and all married except one, and seven reared families.
The first child, Flavella Jane ShofTner, was born in
1832,	and, before she married, taught school in the little schoolhouse near her grandfather?s home and at other places. In 1853 she married Joseph B. Woosley, who served in the Confederate Armv during the Civil War. They moved to Union City after the war. where he engag(>d in the lumber busine.-~ until he :. ? 1 !M* 1, and where his wife still live-. Tun . / i ? - -Joel Walden and Samuel I>.. i: ?-Union City.
'Pile M-cond chiid	I.? ? i ? .	-	-	? ? ? -
was born in Is'!:;, marn-! " .*.? 1! ? ? r** r. I'-'-. .mi settled on 'i'll*?ni]>n'~ <	A	.i
strong Union sentiment, lie did ii"t join either : and in 1 S<S 1 he died. Hi.- wife is ^till living on Thompson's Creek. Their four daughters grew to womanhood, married, and are now living with their families near the place of their birth.
The next son, John R. Shoffner, was born in 1.S3.V lie served in the Confederate Army, and at the close of the war married Hattie J. Locke; and after his death, in 1891, she located in Shelbyville, Tenn. A sketch of his life appears elsewhere.
The second daughter, I?ermelia Ann Shoffner, was
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