Gunsmiths of Hampshire County, VA, by Mark Smith:
Benjamin Franklin Shane, Gunsmith, married Delilah, daughter of John Cheshire, in 1824. Shane bought a shop and two acres of land along Edwards Run from the heirs of Nathaniel Offutt in 1856. The same day records indicate that Shane sold his existing shop along the Capon & North Branch Turnpike to Gunsmith Christopher Slonaker. Benjamin Shane died in a gun shop accident in 1861.
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