When Daniel Shoffner was born on 10 December 1826, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, his father, George A Shofner, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Bennett, was 32. He married Zeruiah Hadley on 23 October 1845, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Brown Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States for about 20 years and Mooresville, Brown Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 23 July 1903, in Morgan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Bethesda Cemetery, Mooresville, Brown Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Americanized form of German Schaffner .
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