Brief Life History of Jedediah
When Jedediah Goff was born on 5 July 1857, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, his father, Isaac Goff, was 45 and his mother, Mary Naylor, was 41. He married Semira Maria Grange on 2 March 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 7, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 30 November 1925, in Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Jedediah Goffe, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
- Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: if originally pronounced with a soft G-, this is from the Middle English personal name Goff(e), Joff(e), a short form of Geoffrey (see Jeffrey ).
English (of Cornish and Breton origin): occupational name from Cornish and Breton goff ‘smith’ (cognate with Gaelic gobha). The surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of Breton origin, introduced by followers of William the Conqueror.
Welsh and Cornish: nickname from a variant of Welsh or Cornish coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’; see Gough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Isaac Goff
By granddaughter Ann Goff Dowding. Grandfather Goff was a man with some odd mannerisms. If he were asked, 'How old are you?' his answer was always, 'Five-foot eight.' If asked when he was born he wou …
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