Elias Gawf
1828 - 1865 (37 years)
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Name Elias Gawf [1] Birth 1828 Tennessee, USA 
[2] Gender Male Death 1865 Patriarch & Matriarch 
Person ID I269 1794 BARLOW-GAWF/GOFF (US-NC-WAK / US-TN-HEN) I-FTA50669 Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father Edmund Gawf, b. 1794, North Carolina, USA d. Aft 1880 (Age > 87 years) Mother Jane Long, b. Abt 1796, North Carolina, USA d. Between 1870 and 1880 (Age 74 years) Family ID F11 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Martha Spain, b. 3 Jan 1830, Henderson, Tennessee, USA d. 7 Jan 1919 (Age 89 years)
Marriage 17 Apr 1850 [3] Children 1. Edmond Goff, b. 8 Mar 1851, Tennessee d. 15 Oct 1888 (Age 37 years)2. MATTHEW Valentine Goff, b. 30 Jun 1853, Tennessee, USA d. 1937 (Age 83 years)▻ Mary Elizabeth Hefley m. 18 Apr 1874[Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]▻ Mary Elizabeth Hefley m. 18 Apr 18743. Mary A Goff, b. 16 May 1856, Tennessee, USA d. Jul 1932, Henderson, Tennessee, USA (Age 76 years)4. J. L. Gawf, b. 16 May 1857 d. Lexington, Henderson, Tennessee, USA 5. Robert W. Goff, b. 1859, Tennessee, USA d. 1942 (Age 83 years)6. Lucinda Jane Goff, b. 14 Jun 1862, Henderson, Tennessee, USA d. 14 Mar 1936 (Age 73 years)7. Elias Samuel Goff, b. 1864 d. 26 Mar 1942 (Age 78 years) ▻ Susan Jane (Cricket) Scott m. 8 Nov 1889▻ Susan Jane (Cricket) Scott m. 8 Nov 18898. Hezekiah Goff, b. 5 Mar 1864 d. 29 Sep 1947, Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, USA (Age 83 years)Family ID F151 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
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Notes - 1850 District 12, Henderson, TN Ancestry.com Image 177 of 259
Elias Gauf 21 1828 b. TN farmer $150 real estate value
Martha Gauf 19 1830 b. TN
(next door to HEFLEY, one of children married a HEFLEY, 3 listings down is Louis GAUF)
Louis Gauf 30 1819 Alabama
Martha Gauf 21 1828 Tennessee
Edmund Gauf 7 1842 Tennessee Male
Emily Gauf 5 1844 Tennessee Female
Docia A Gauf 3 1846 Tennessee Female TN
Mary Gauf 4.12 Tennessee Female
1860 Henderson Co., TN Dist. 12
Elias Gawp 31 b.1828 Tennessee Male
Martha Gawp 31 b. 1828 Tennessee Female
E L Gawp 9 1850 b. Tennessee Male
M V Gawp 7 1852 b. Tennessee Male (Matthew Valentine)
Mary A Gawp 4 1855 b. Tennessee Female
R R Gawp 1 1858 b. Tennessee Male
http://www.tnyesterday.com/gm/gm3-07.htm Civil Dist. 12 Federal Direct Tax: Elias is listed with 186 acres with a value of $612
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnweakle/Andersonville.htm
"The first thing the former prisoners asked for was food. They had had so little to eat in the last year, however, that eating was dangerous. Elias Goff of Co.K, a citizen of Scotts Hill in Henderson County, died suddenly after his release from Millen Prison when sympathetic citizens gave him a big meal. The U.S. military authorities tried to prevent overeating by issuing small amounts of food to the men several times a day"
From The History of Scotts Hill, TN
"GOFF, Elias, US.A. Pvt. Co. K 7th Cav. Captured also by Gen. Forrest's troops and sent to Andersonville prison. Was so starved when released at war's end that after being fed a big meal not far from the prison as he started home, he became violently ill and died. He was buried there - the family back here never knew exactly where. He might have been interred in the national cemetery at Andersonville. Some grandchildren are yet living including C.F. Goff, a well-known postal retiree in Lexington. Incidentally, C.F.'s other grandfather, Jesse R. Scott was also imprisoned at Andersonville. He lived to get back home here and rear a large family."
http://www.montezuma-ga.org/chamber/prisoner.asp?code=65312
Code No: 65312
Grave No: NOT BURIED AT ANDERSONVILLE
Last Name: GOFF First Name: ELIAS
Rank: PRIVATE Company: K Regiment: 7 State: TN
Branch of Service:
Date of Death:
Cause of Death:
Remarks:
Reference*: TN ADG RPT: 479, 691
Place Captured: UNION CITY, TENNESSE Date Captured: 3/24/1864
Alternate Names:
Status: SURVIVED ANDERSONVILLE More Information Available: NO
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http://www.interment.net/data/us/sc/beaufort/beaunat/index_gagon.htm National Cem., Beaufort, SC
Goff, Elias, PVT CO K 7 TENN CAV, Plot: 2065, *
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does anyone have a copy of his pension file? Does it say who his father is? Turner claims Elias is a nephew, not son, or Edmund T. Goff.
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Footnote
Confederacy 51st Consolidated Infantry TN, Co C
Elioas GOFF enlisted 13 Dec 1861 Henderson Co., TN. Deserted/disappeared 1 Feb 1862 (same info is on Lewis GOFF)
- 1850 District 12, Henderson, TN Ancestry.com Image 177 of 259
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Sources - [S27] 1860 United States Federal Census, The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: District 12, Henderson, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1256; Page: 273; Family History Library Film: 805256.
- [S4] History of Scotts Hill, Tennessee, p. 370.
- [S10] Pension paperwork of Elias Gawf.
- [S27] 1860 United States Federal Census, The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: District 12, Henderson, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1256; Page: 273; Family History Library Film: 805256.
