RITCHIE COUNTY, WV: GOFF CEMETERY
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Courtesy of The Ritchie County Historical Society
March/April 1978 Newsletter  Vol. VI  No. II

GOFF CEMETERY
Burnt House -- Tanner Road

Left side of highway on top of a hill (2 tall pine trees mark the
site of the cemetery).  The home of Mrs. Lawrence (Dausy Goff) Sinnett
is on the right side of the highway going toward Tanner.  The cemetery
is on the pioneer homestead (farm) of Strother and nancy Riddle Goff.
Alexander Goff and his wife Elizabeth Riddle Goff were the founders of
the Goff family in Ritchie Co., WV.  Several of their children came to 
Ritchie County from Gilmer.  Alexander and Elizabeth Goff spent their
last years at the home of their son, Strother.

Gravestone readings were made by Rella Lindsay and Winnifred Scott on
Nov. 11th, 1969

1.  E. C. Kerns - son of G.W. & C.M. --b. Dec. 22, 1891 - d. Sept. 18, 1898

2.  B. S. Goff (Benjamin) b. Aug. 17, 1837 - d. Jan. 1, 1886 
    (son of Strother Goff)

3.  Henry L. son of B. S. Goff - b. Jan. 14, 1875 - d. Dec. 14, 1879

4.  One Stone - Goff, Alexander - b. 1773 - d. 1857
                Goff, Elizabeth - b. 1779 - d. 1859

5.  Goff, S. G. (Strother) b. Feb. 10, 1810 - d. Nov. 24, 1892

6.  Gootstone - N. G. - no date - this is probably for Nancy Riddle Goff,
    wife of Strother Goff.

Four old stones without names.

Mrs. Sinnett gave us the names of three people buried in the cemetery 
without markers - - Twins, Alvin and Alva Bollinger, children of 
Caroline Gough Goff Bollinger and Thomas Bollinger, Twins born 
Jan. 22, 1876.  Caroline Gough was first married to Lafayette Goff; 
after his death in the Civil War she married Thomas Bollinger.

Six stones and one footstone.

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