When Martha Malinda Shoffner was born on 24 March 1861, in Union, Tennessee, United States, her father, Asbury Shoffner, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Ann Shelby, was 30. She married James Jefferson Goins in 1878, in Union, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 5 April 1952, in Union, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sharps Chapel, Union, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Americanized form of German Schaffner .
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