This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5MZ.2ACEB/945.2 Message Board Post: Your Frank Goff is interesting to me, though I certainly don't know why. I've run across his name in the records several times, perhaps. I believe there is a chance that this family of Grayson Co Goffs are related to the southern Goff family, as Monroe Goff ([email protected]) was living for a time in the deep south. I would be interested to find out if you have heard gossip about Native American blood in this line........ Have you a clue as to where Calvin moved to when he left KY? Monroe went to TX for a time hunting down jobs, and I noted that the tax rolls only listed William Goff. The Renfrow family is quite large and seems to be in every county and mostly grouped together in one area or another. They were a family of means, were hard workers, had been thought well of by their communities, and always took advantage of societies in the public (Masons, IOOF, etc). I know that if you know of the surname of Renfrow, you can be certain there are other regular surnames tied to it. I'm not sure, but I think this band of Renfrows came from VA to KY in the early 1800s if not the latter 1790s. William Goff was a tobacco farmer in Spring Lick, as were many located on or near the river. I thought it was rather unique to find tobacco plants all over the valley, up the hill- side, stopping only long enough to allow the family cemetery to be there, then the tobacco plants continued up the hill to the top. This was evidently a form of using the limited land well.