! History Josephus Goff Josephus appears on the tax records of Owen in 1829. There is also an Elijah Gough, born 1780-90 at the same time. Yet another, William Gof f, from N.C., of the right age group to have been his fatherappears too . This William married Mary Oliver and had a son named James, born abt 1808, who died in Jasper Co., Missouri 1878. William, son of Josephus, was also in Jasper Co., Missouri in 1880.