Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Henry Leonis Goff    
                Born: Oct-24-1845          in Braxton Co, (W)VA  1 (see note 1)
                Died: Sep-20-1916           2
              Buried:                      in Hazelgreen (Buzzard) Cemetery (btwn Co Rds 19/4 & 19/5), Ritchie Co WV  3
              Father: Joseph Hardman Goff, Sr.   (1822 - 1893) 
              Mother: Angelina S. Davis   (1823 - 1857) 
                Wife: Cordelia D. Bee     
             Married: Sep-11-1873          in Ritchie Co, WV  4
                Born: Jun- 5-1842          in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  2,1 (see note 2)
                Died: Feb- 1-1921           5
              Buried:                      in Hazelgreen (Buzzard) Cemetery (btwn Co Rds 19/4 & 19/5), Ritchie Co WV  3
              Census: 1920                 in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV   (see note 3)
             Resided: 1911                 at Berea, Ritchie Co, WV  6
              Census: 1870                 in Alden, Freeborn Co, MN  
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
              Father: John Davis Bee   (1811 - 1868) 
              Mother: Ingaby Davis   (1819 - 1911) 
           M Child 1: Joseph Hardman Goff      
                Born: Sep-17-1878           7,8
                Died: Mar-20-1967          in Ritchie Co, WV  9,7,8
              Buried:                      in Hazelgreen (Buzzard) Cemetery (btwn Co Rds 19/4 & 19/5), Ritchie Co WV  3
             Resided:                      in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  7
                Wife: Mary V. Brissey  b. Feb-23-1883  d. 1940  
             Married: Mar-27-1904          in Ritchie Co, WV  1

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(2) Headstone. 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(4) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Henry L. Goff, age 27, b. Braxton Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of Joseph H. & Angeline S.; and Cordelia Bee, age 23, b. 
Doddridge Co, res. Ritchie Co, dau of John.  Married Sep 11 1873. 
(5) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 72. 
(6) Obituary of mother. 
(7) Social Security Death Index. 
(8) Headstone (year only) 
(9) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1956-1970, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1999) 

Event Notes
Note (1) date on headstone:  Oct 25 1845
Note (2) Age 23 reported at time of Sep 1873 marriage would put birth at about 1850,
but headstone reads Jun 5 1842.  Death date blank on headstone.
Note (3) in household of son Joseph H. Goff







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