This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goff Brown Woodard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5MZ.2ACEB/1012.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello Noah. I tried to send this to both your email addresses, but neither went through. Hope you see it here and I'll try to send the pictures to the message board as well. I am Bill Brown and am descended from James Steely's daughter Tobitha and Green M. Brown. Green died fairly young, but not before having 7 children with Tobitha, including my great grandfather John Brown. Tobitha later married a man named Alexander. I don't have a whole lot above James Steely and only a few pictures, but here it goes. Most of this I haven't proven, but has been passed on to me by cousins. I applied for and got Tobitha Goff's death certificate. It lists her father as Seely Gaff and mother as Eliza Woodard. We know James Steely Goff was married to Eliza Woodard. Tobitha is buried in the Lacoochee cemetery here in Florida. She is buried between 2 of her Brown children. An 1850 census report shows Samuel Gaff as head of house 148 and a James S. Gaff as head of house 149. Th! e 1840 census shows them a few households apart. James Steely Goff's father Samuel Goff Sr. was married to a Tabitha Watson ( an Indian?) and they had about 14 children. Samuel Sr had at least one sibling - William. Their parents were Dempse Goff and Catherine Herring. They were married 5 Mar 1783 in Duplin County, NC. I've attached 5 JPGs for you: 1. I believe this a group photo of James Steely, wife Eliza Woodard, Tobitha Goff and Green Brown plus kids. 2. Picture of Tobitha Goff Brown Alexander 3. Picture of Eliza Woodard, wife of James Steely 4. Picture of James Steely Goff 5. A letter from another cousin descended from Steely's son Dempse. His email address is on it, but I'm not sure if it's still good. I also have some notes on some of the civil war Goffs and some old Goff marriage lists. These are all the photos I have of our Goffs so if you come across any different ones, I sure would like to see them. Hope this helps some.