Charles Cook Goff (198) was born 13 August 1838 in Allegheny City (now Northside Pittsburgh), Alllegheny County, Pennsylvania, a son of Kinney Herbert Goff (57) and Sophia Hugo (74). He later moved to Louisiana, where he lived in New Orleans.

Charles married Mary Francica Zeller (1275) on 14 November 1870. Mary was born 5 July 1838 in New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana, a daughter of Ignatz Zeller (1313) and Elizabeth Van Housen (1314).

Together they had four children: May Margaret (1276), born 22 October 1871; Louvainia Alice (1277), born 23 March 1873; Isabell Josephine (1278), born 6 November 1874; and Elizabeth Olivia (1279), born 12 January 1878.

Charles died 14 February 1906 in New Orleans and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. Mary died 30 May 1924 and is also buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana.

Family lore has it that Charles was either a pilot or a fireman on the steamboat Robt E. Lee in its 1870 race with the Natchez. Information that I have been able to find so far says that he was not a pilot, but he may well have been on the boat in some other capacity.

The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Press on Sunday, 18 February 1906:

Charles C. Goff, a former resident of Pittsburgh, died last Wednesday at New Orleans, in his 68th year. He moved to New Orleans about 50 years ago. Shorty after his arrival he became connected with one of the big river boats and followed the river until the war came. He was chief engineer on many of the famous old floating palaces in those days, but when the blockade was established on the Southern coast he withdrew from the trade and became one of the engineers on a blockade runner and served the Confederate cause. He leaves a widow and three children.

*I thank Maryan Daniel Formy-Duval for information on this family and Gerald Hobson for the obituary of Charles Goff.

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