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"Descendents of Edmund Goff and Jane Long of Henderson County TN. Various spellings of the name were Gough, Gaugh, Goff, Goffe, and Gawf. It is said that Edmund and Jane came from North Carolina in a two wheeled oxcart, settling on the current Goff farm in Henderson County before West Tennessee was opened for settlement (1818). Various branches in the family have all stated that this was shortly after the Great Earthquake, and that there were no white neighbors, only indians. This would put the settlement time after 1811-1812. Jane Long Goff was said to have shot and killed an indian with a musket during the first year when she caught him leading off the milk cow. There was no where to get another. The original home was log with a mud and stick chimney. Nothing is left of the site except for some depressions, made sometime after the Civil War by people looking for some 'buried gold or coins.' This site is on Hwy 100 in Henderson County, just west of the Chester County Line, and east of the Goff Branch Creek. Shiloh Baptist Church is near the property.
At some point prior to Edmund Goff it was thought that the name was originally Barlowe or Bartholemew, but no one in my greatgrandfather's generation remembered when or why. A recent conversation with Janice Goff Williams of Alamo indicates that there may not be a Barlowe name change, and that our line is tied to other published Goff lines."
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I wonder what those people had heard to make them look for 'buried gold or coins'.
At some point prior to Edmund Goff it was thought that the name was originally Barlowe or Bartholemew, but no one in my greatgrandfather's generation remembered when or why. A recent conversation with Janice Goff Williams of Alamo indicates that there may not be a Barlowe name change, and that our line is tied to other published Goff lines."
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I wonder what those people had heard to make them look for 'buried gold or coins'.
