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Burch Family Cemetery ~ Kezziah Goff
~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Goff, Kezziah
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LAST NAME: Goff
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FIRST NAME: Kezziah
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MAIDEN NAME: Ford
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GENDER: F
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BORN: 28 Apr 1798
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DIED: 22 Feb 1866
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BURIED: ~ Burch Family Cemetery
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BIRTH PLACE: Buckingham Co., Virginia
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DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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NOTES: MARRIAGE - to David Goff, 1819
CHILDREN - Samuel, Martha (died in Missouri), Mary Vidue (died in Missouri), Francis Marion Peltis, Pauline, and Caroline.
1850 OR CENSUS - Kesiah Goff, age 52, b. Virginia, is enumerated with David, age 55, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, is enumerated with . Also enumerated with the family are Isaac Flint, age 30, b. New Your, and Purdy Flint, age 8, b. Wisconsin.
BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - Childress, Sarah, "David Goff" by Harriet McArthur, Polk County Oregon Pioneers (1927) via www.genealogytrails.com/ore/polk):
"...In 1814 he emigrated to Kentucky near Lexington, where he met and married Kezziah Ford in 1819. Kezziah was a sister of Col. Nathaniel Ford and was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, April 28, 1798. The Fords were of French extraction, descendants of the Hugenots. They emigrated to Kentucky."
"...David and Kezziah Goff “Uncle Davy and Aunt Kizzy,” as they were affectionately known were kind neighbors and never neglected an opportunity to lend a helping hand. Mrs. Goff was a dignified retiring woman, who followed the fortunes of her husband with patience and Christian fortitude. She died Feb. 22, 1866."
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INSCRIPTION: Kezziah
wife of
David Goff
Born
in Buckingham Co., Virginia
Apr. 28, 1798
Died
Feb. 22, 1866
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SOURCES: Branigar Survey
1850 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #111)
Polk Co. Oregon Pioneers
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