Orange County, NC - COURT - Michael & Sarah Shofner, 
			    Rejected Request for Divorce
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Transcriber's Notes -
This is Michael SHOFFNER 111, born 19 Jan 1785, son of Michael 
SHOFFNER 11 and Phillipena DIRR.
After this divorce, Michael SHOFFNER married Sarah FOGLEMAN.
They had six daughters and two sons. Michael died 18 June 1874, his 
2nd wife Sarah FOGLEMAN died in 1862. They are both buried at St. 
Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Alamance County, NC.
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Michael SHOFNER and wife Sarah of Orange County, NC. Petition for Divorce

N.C. General Assembly Sessions Records
Nov-Dec 1811
Box 3

Petition of Michael SHOFNER of Orange County, North Carolina sheweth 
"that he was intermarried to Sarah SMITH in said county, on or about the  
25th of December 1803" that the said Sarah possessed beauty and art 
sufficient to snare most men, and particularly an innocent and 
unsuspecting youth as was your petitioner at that time. In the state of 
matrimony your petitioner calculated alone on peace and happiness, but 
unfortunately for him and to his great disappointment and surprise, he 
soon found what he looked upon as a blessing, to prove a curse-a demon. 
Disregarding the sacred obligation of her marriage vows unmindful of her 
duties as a wife, and being insensible to shame... to virtue or the 
benefits of a clear conscience, she gave a look to the barest sensuality  
and Guilty passions, throughing off all appearance of modesty, she sought 
Criminal intercourse with every man who was wicked enough to perpratrate 
the crime of adultery with her"....The petitioner tried in vain "to 
reclaim her from the paths of vice and debauchery and offered forgiveness 
for a promise of future good conduct. However she returned to her "former 
ways of folly and wickedness and abandoned his bed and board for many 
months. Finally, she returned "to his house and protection and there 
for a short time remained until instigated by her ungovernable lusts and 
wicked desires". She again abandoned her home and carried with her much 
of the property of your petitioner which she has sold" Since then "the 
said Sarah SHOFNER lead the most abominable course of life and Sensual 
pleasures and obstinately refused to return to her home"

Prays for a divorce.
25 Nov 1811

Divorce REJECTED