Nathan Poole Goff (1900)

GOFF, NORRIS

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 6/28/2007 at 17:45:46

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 01, 1900
Page 1

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE (continued from the 8th page)

Death has claimed two more of our number. Rev. Courey was to preach the two funeral sermons. At 10:00 a.m. he preached the funeral sermon of grand-father Goff at Fairview, and at 12 o’clock he conducted the services of B. Barnett’s oldest child in Desoto.

Nathan P. Goff was born October 2d, 1815, near Wheeling, West Virginia, and died at his home in Union county, Iowa, February 23th, 1900, with cancer in the mouth, age 84 years, 4 months and 21 days. From West Virginia he moved with his parents to Missouri, living there three years. He went from Missouri to Muncie, Delaware county, Indiana, and was there married to Elizabeth Norris, August 22, 1839, who died August 16th, 1894. With his wife he came to Iowa in the year 1863 and settled in Madison county near Fairview, where he lived for a number of years. He was the father of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, one son and one daughter preceding him in death. The others survive him, three daughters and one son are present today.

He was converted at the age of fifteen and united with the M. E. church in West Virginia. He was a true and worthy follower of Christ during his entire lifetime. He was one of the first members, and was the first class leader ad first Sunday school superintendent of the Fairview church. A few days before his death he requested his son, Alfred to read to him from the Bible; he read the fourth chapter of 1st Thess. On his death bed his son asked him if he had any message for the absent children and he repeated the latter part of the 13th verse of that chapter which reads as follows: ”Concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.” Those who have known him during his lifetime can testify to his upright character, earnest piety and strong faith in Christ. His life has been an example worthy imitation not only by his children and relatives, but all who desire to live thoroughly Christian and exemplary lives in service of the Master.

On account of the death of Mr. Goff, Friday morning, the exhibition at the Pleasant Hill school house was postponed until Thursday night.

Those from a distance attending the funeral Sunday morning were, Alfred Goff and son Archie, Grant Dunn and Chas. Kilgore of Lorimor and the Anderson family of Worthington.
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Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 1, 1900
Page 7

Fairview

Grandfather Goff, a former resident of this place and one of Madison county’s pioneers was buried in the Fairview cemetery last Sunday.

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