I'm attempting to build a family tree for a 90 yr old aunt who knows little about her heritage further back than her grandparents' names due to having been orphaned around age 9.

Trying to find information on the family of Samuel GOFF who was b. May 1876 in Upper Township, Richland Co, South Carolina and moved to GA sometime before 1900.

Samuel was the older brother of my aunt's mother Estelle I. GOFF who married Robert Weston JONES of Columbia, Richland Co, SC.

I would especially like to find Samuel's death date so as to get his death certificate and learn his father's name.

1900 Odum - Samuel is a boarder in the household of David Corten; next door is the Nicholas McGAULEY family with a dau. Lill*n age 17y.

1910, Odum - Samuel 35y is married 10 yrs; wife named as Lillen Q. 30y b. GA; next door is still the Nicholas McGAULEY family from the 1900 census minus daughter Lill*n.

Samuel & Lillen have children - William H 9y, Rozzie C 7y(dau), Au** B 4y (dau, Perry N 2y & Lillie M */12y...illigible but under a year old.

1920 Odum - Samuel 43y & Lillen 39y (now called Lilly) have the following family make-up -
Henry 18y, Rozzie 16y, Oammie B. 14y, Perry 12y, May 10y, Clyde 8y, Alma 6y, Lewis 4y, Osburn 2y6m & Aviner 11 m (dau). Next door is still the Nicholas McGAULEY family.

1930 Odum - Samuel 54y (married at age 26y) & Lilia 49y (married at 21y) have the following family make-up -
Mary 20y, Clar** 18y(son), Alma 16y, Louis 14y, Osburn 12y, Christine 9y & Connie 8y. Next door now is the family of William McGAULEY 42y believed to be the son of Nicholas who has a 12y son Willian on the 1900 census.

One family away is William H. GOFF 28y (married at 26y) with wife Lee Ann 20y (married at 18y) and children Leland 1y 9m & Irma 6 mos.

Samuel's wife Lilia / Lillen / Lilly's possible maiden is McGAULEY based on proximity of the family of Nicholas McGAULEY with dau. Lillie b. Jan 1882 being nextdoor in 1900 and the fact that Samuel & wife Lil remain nextdoor neighbors of the Nicholas McGAULEY family through the 1930 census.

Can anyone help with this family of Samuel GOFF

Hi. Did some looking for you and although Samuel "Sam" hasn't shown up many places I did find: WWI draft card name: Sam Goff DOB: 29 May 1874 wife: Liller had grey eyes, black hair. On the Wayne Co. Website at www.wcolweb.com/genealogy/genealogy.html under marriages I found Sanuel (sic) Goff married Lilla McGauley 2/3/1901. In the cemetery listings from the same site no Samuel, no Lillie but some of their kids William Henry Goff born
20 Nov 1901-5 Jun 1985 wife Lee Annie A b. 10 May 1908 no death date buried in Odum City Cemetery. Nicholas Perry Goff 4 Jun 1907- 4 Nov 1940 buried Piney Grove Church Cemetery. Osborn M Goff Tech 4 WWII 13 May 1917-none wife Josephine V. b. 12 May 1910-none Pinecrest Memorial Cemetery near Jesup. Under Georgia deaths I found a Lillie Goff born abt 1877 died 30 Jun 1961 Wayne Co., GA. Hope this helps. Sherry

Have you also posted this to the Goff and Odum surname list?

Not my lines.

Thanks for the information. I've never done any searching for ancestors in GA so I hadn't yet found the site whose addy you sent.

Lillie's DOD is great as is learning that my guess was right with respect to her maiden name. With Lillie's DOD I should now be able to get her DC and learn where she is buried.

Presumably she will be with Samuel and I'll be able to learn his DOD from the cemetery and then get his DC. Hopefully the informant for that will have known what Samuel's father's name was.

I've checked GA vitals and am pleased to see that I will be able to get a copy of Lillie Goff's DC as well as Samuel's once I learn a DOD for him. So yes, this information helps a great deal.

I will try for the DC's first but the information on Samuel & Lillie's descendants, too, may help me to find some living descendents who are researching who might be able to assit me with this Goff line. I'm finding Samuel's Goff ancestors in SC to be very stealthy so far.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the reminder to post at surname boards. People do tend to forget to do this sometimes.

I had posted at the GOFF surname board at the the same time as this post as well as at the boards at Genealogy.com. Odum is the town they lived in so I won't be posting to the surname board for that.

While the posts here will gateway to the boards at Roots Web and the associated mailing lists, they don't gateway to The Generations Network's other site, Genealogy.com.

I've found through the years that there are folks like me who check the boards at both sites but just as many users who stick to one or the other site exclusively so I will usually post at both Ancestry & Genealogy.

And I think I will hold off on posting at the surname board for Lillie GOFF's maiden of McGUALEY for the moment since my present goal is to learn the given name of the father of both Samuel & his sister Estella who is my primary focus.

Thanks again for the important reminder.

Glad I've helped. Good luck finding Samuel and Estellas parents. I have a sneaking suspicion that Samuels first name wasn't Samuel. I've found, doing my own Southern research that usually the names given on the census were middle names or derivitives thereof. You may want to check out the FindAGrave site once you get a burial place for Lillie. There are some cemeteries that have been checked recently and have many more recent burials, so you get lots more decendent info. Happy Hunting Sherry

Find A Grave is one of my favorite sites. I have posted a lot there as I find various burials. And it's great when someone goes out and takes a pix of the grave for you. A lot of the time, a virtual visit is the only way I'm ever going to get to visit that ancestor's resting place.

I did find Samuel & Estelle's family group on the 1880 census. The name of their father is "Hic" then the next letter is probably a "k" although very short & stunted and I'll be darned if I can figure out what the remainder of the name is.

http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6742&p...

The enumerator also did an apparent phonetic on the surname which is "Gauf" on this census but the family make-up & ages match what I know for Estelle's family. Estelle b. abt. 1890 & her brother William, b. abt. 1883, obviously don't appear on this census.

For the moment, unless someone else comes up with something else, it looks like that death of Lillie you found for me may be my one roundabout shot at finding out just what Estelle's father's name was on the 1880 census.

Thanks again.

I just looked at census and like you, I find it difficult to make out those last letters, it could be Hickson.........
I found them again in 1900 In Upper Township, Richland Co. with Catherine as Kate, Samuel John and Estelle. Hic???? has died between 1896-1900. When did Catherine/Kate die, and was she still in SC when she did?

Sherry

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=G...;

I think I've found Samuel and Lillie.

Sam Goff born 29 May 1974 (typo) died 1 May 1935
Lillie 1876-1961

Both buried in Moody Tillman Cemetery, Appling Co., GA
Appling is the next Co. over from Wayne.

Hope this is the right couple.

Sherry

These two look like a good match for Samuel & wife Lillie.

I'll have to go through the rest and see if any of the others are associated with them. I didn't get a chance yesterday.

Thanks for all your effort!