John Newton Goff (131) and Sarah Elizabeth Eberle (342)

 

 

John Newton Goff (131), born April 1850 in Sewickly, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a son of Philo Goff (58) and Prudence Marie Brown (76).

John married Sarah Elizabeth Eberle (342) and together they had five children: Alonzo Joy (344), born in 1885; Mary Louise Hutchison (343), born about 1888; William (1294); Fred (1295) and one other.

John Newton Goff was the first station agent appointed on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad. When the first Pittsburgh & Lake Erie station was erected at Shousetown he was appointed the agent there. He was a cripple for the last several years of his life. He had an operation a week before his death from which he never recovered. John Newton Goff died at Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on Friday, 29 September 1899.


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