Goff, Kezziah LAST: Goff FIRST: Kezziah MID:  GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Ford TITLE:  BORN: 28 Apr 1798 DIED: 22 Feb 1866 BURIED:  (Burch Family Cemetery) OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Buckingham Co., Virginia DEATH PLACE: Oregon 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." OBITUARY:  INSCRIPTION:  Kezziah  wife of David Goff Born in Buckingham Co., Virginia Apr. 28, 1798  Died Feb. 22, 1866 SOURCES:  Branigar Survey 1850 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #111) Polk Co. Oregon Pioneers CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: