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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
Sudden death. --Between three and four o'clock yesterday evening, Mr. James W. Goff, was seen to step from the sidewalk of Governor street, when opposite the store of George J. Sumner & Co., an. The discovery was then first made that the vital spark had fled, and that the deceased was James W. Goff. The body was removed across the street, to Messrs. Murray & Roper's, by those two gentlemeer conveyed, on a bier, to the late home of the deceased, on Broad, near the corner of 20th st. Mr. Goff was salesman and foreman for Samuel S. Cottrell & Co., and was formerly of the firm of Otey & GGoff. He leaves a widow and two children. Prior to his sudden dissolution, he gave no evidence of sickness; on the contrary, he is said, yesterday morning to have been in unusually good spirits. MrsMrs. Goff, his widow, was at Trinity Church, attending a funeral, when the distressing news was brought to her, and thus, as it were, stepped from a house of mourning to one of woe and desolated hopes.