John Eustace Goff (55) was born 29 March 1804 near Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine, a son of John Goffe (49) and Jane Gregston (50). He moved with his family to the Pittsburgh area in 1817.

John married Sarah Jane Wright (73) of Troy Hill (now part of Northside Pittsburgh) on 31 July 1828. Sarah is a daughter of John Wright (1442) and Rachel Garrison (1443). Sarah's brother, Stephen Wright (1441) married Margaret Turkington (152), daughter of Hugh Turkington (150) and Mary Ann Gregston (151). Mary Ann is a half sister to Jane Gregston.

Together, John and Sarah had eight children: Mary Jane (175), born in 1829; Frances Ann (176), born about 1832; Rachel Elizabeth (177), born about 1833; Lucinda (98), born in 1834; John Ebert (97), born in 1837; Fielding B. (178), born in 1841; Henrietta (179), born about 1843; and Thornton (180), born about 1845. Fielding and Thornton served with Pennsylvania volunteer units during the Civil War.

John E. Goff came to Sewickly Bottom in 1834 to help his brother Kinney Goff (57) with a grist mill he had on the river bank at Stoops Ferry. He later moved to Beaver Falls, Beaver County, PA. John and Sarah lived on Eighth Avenue in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, down the Ohio River from Sewickly and Pittsburgh. John died there on 7 January 1890. He was buried 10 January 1890 in Section A, Lot 88, Sewickly Cemetery, Sewickly, Allegheny County, PA (the stone is marked John Everett Goff!). Sarah died in Beaver Falls on 18 December 1897 and is buried with John in Sewickly Cemetery.

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