{"id":963,"date":"2015-09-21T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=963"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:40","slug":"monroe-shofner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/monroe-shofner\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOFNER, Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONROE SHOFNER <\/strong>was born in Tennessee September 16, 1833. son of <strong>Austin and Rebecca (Cook) Shofner<\/strong>, natives of North Carolina, born August 16, 1801, and April 21, 1798, respectively.\u00a0 The father was brought to Tennessee in 1807, and in 1818 married our subject&#8217;s mother and became the father of eight children:\u00a0 <strong>Plummer W., Mitchell D.,<\/strong> (killed in the battle of Chickamauga), <strong>Henderson, Catherine<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>John<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>Martin<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>Monroe, Purline<\/strong> and<strong> Isom <\/strong>(deceased).\u00a0 Our subject&#8217;s father was reared on a farm and followed farming and stock trading, accumulating considerable wealth.\u00a0 He operated a distillery for about six years, and was well known throughout the county as a dealer in fine horses.\u00a0 He died October 18, 1852, and his wife October 10, 1875.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monroe<\/strong> spent the life of a farmer&#8217;s boy and is now residing on the farm settled by his grandfather, <strong>Martin Shofner<\/strong>, which consists of 200 acres.\u00a0 In 1863 he entered the Confederate service, and remained one year.\u00a0 He followed pedagoging sixteen years, but discontinued that in 1878.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Shofner<\/strong> takes much interest in laudable public enterprises, and gives them his support and patronage.\u00a0 He believes in Republican principles and he is a devout supporter of temperance, and has on divers occasions delivered temperance lectures.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROE SHOFNER was born in Tennessee September 16, 1833. son of Austin and Rebecca (Cook) Shofner, natives of North Carolina, born August 16, 1801, and April 21, 1798, respectively.\u00a0 The father was brought to Tennessee in 1807, and in 1818 married our subject&#8217;s mother and became the father of eight children:\u00a0 Plummer W., Mitchell D., &#8230; <a title=\"SHOFNER, Monroe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/monroe-shofner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about SHOFNER, Monroe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3197,3196,3201,3200,3205,3202,3203,3199,3195,3198,3204],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-cook-rebecca","tag-shofner-austin","tag-shofner-catherine","tag-shofner-henderson","tag-shofner-isom","tag-shofner-john","tag-shofner-martin","tag-shofner-mitchell-d","tag-shofner-monroe","tag-shofner-plummer-w","tag-shofner-purline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}