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'Shoffner History.
Iiv<nl and labored very pleasantly and compamonably, and entered into their lives as one of them, planning and working toward everything conducive to their pleasure and happiness. As they married and grandchildren were born, she, being naturally fond of the little ones, bestowed on them the all'ection of an own grandmother.
The Hot low home was noted far and wide for its old-time Southern hospitality, its bounteousness, and its jolly good cheer, and was quite a rendezvous for all the countryside. Hut in about fifteen years death entered the home of Martha Shofner again and widowed her heart and home, Mr. Moilow's death occurring Februarv 2 3, 1872.
As in her first widowhood, she returned to the place of her birth and again took up her residence with Loton Shofner, where she remained for about two years. On February 10, 187 1, she wedded Mr. \Y. II. Dyer, a widower, who lived a few miles from Shelbyville, on Sugar Creek. 'Phis union was particularly happy. Her age was somewhat more advanced now, and her life was not so active, but perhaps was more trani|iiil. peaceful, and protected than it ever had been ; and this she appreciated all the more, because she had been broken up in her life plans several times. She was very devoted to Mr. Dyer, he being the very soul of kindness and consideration for her; and thus their lives, hound in mutual love, flowed on in this happy way for six or seven years, when God once more saw fit to place his hand of affliction on her, and she was the third time left a childless widow.
This time she again returned to the scenes of her childhood, and found hearts open to receive her in the