Elisha married Nancy H. Hedges
He died at age 35 years.

Elisha Goff history
1795-1831 , Clark Co., Kentucky
Elisha Goff, son of Thomas Jonas and Margaret (Parsons) Goff. He was born in Clark Co., Kentucky, September 10 1795, and died in Clark Co., Kentucky, March 22, 1831.

Elisha married in Clark Co., Kentucky, December 25, 1817 to Nancy Hedges. She was born in Kentucky, November 15, 1799 and died June 10, 1870. Nancy Hedges was the daughter of John and Catherine (Troutman) Hedges. (John Hedges was a native of Maryland, moved to Kentucky in 1792, and settled in Bourbon Co., Kentucky.)

Elisha Goff served in the War of 1812 from Clark Co., Kentucky, as a private of 2 Regiment (Jennings') Kentucky Volunteers. He was a captain in the militia and drilled several companies for the defense of the Commonwealth. [2nd Regiment, Kentucky Militia - Organized September 1, 1812. Lt. Colonel William Jennings, commanding. 3rd Company - Captain Tunstall Quarles. from "Kentucky in the War of 1812" by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, 1969, page 180.] [Listed in regiment list for the "Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812" compiled by Minne S. Wilder, 1931, page 62.]

Elisha was employed to assist in carving out the road from Richmond, Kentucky, to Mount Sterling, Kentucky, which in all probability was the first public highway in Clark County, and one of the first in the state of Kentucky.

Elisha was one of the first men to discover the value of the iron ores of Red River, and was instrumental in establishing the first iron furnace in that region. A friend in Virginia had sent Elisha some timothy seed. These were sown on a plat near Indian Fields, Kentucky, and became the first timothy meadow in Kentucky, the soil of that area being well adpted to that type of grass.

Elisha and Nancy are enumerated in the 1820 and 1830 censuses of Clark Co., Kentucky. Nancy is enumerated in the 1840 through 1860 censuses of Clark Co., Kentucky. Both are buried in the Goff Cemetery near Indian Fields, Kentucky.
Information from Descendants of Thomas Jonas Goff (1747-1824) of Clark County, Kentucky, Compiled by Roy L. Lockhart, 1979. Information sent to this memorial by Historianne.