Onondaga County New York Obituaries Extracted From The Northern Christian Advocate, Syracuse, NY, 1900

1900 Obituaries from the Northern Christian Advocate in Syracuse, Onondaga County New York.

GOFF, Ervilla Consalus, Obituary

Ervilla Consalus was born Dec. 28, 1846, in Canisteo Township, Steuben Co., N.Y., and always resided within a few miles of her birthplace. Reared among holy influences, she was brought to Christ at the age of ten years, and soundly converted. The only church represented in the immediate vicinity being the Christian denomination, she united with that fellowship; subsequently when Methodist Episcopal classes were formed transferring her membership to them. From the early days of Methodism in Canisteo her name has appeared on the class books and records as an active and worthy member. In August, 1865, she was married to Murray McConnell, with whome she lived happily five years, when her husband was removed by a sudden accident. July 20, 1875, she married Orphus Goff, who survives her. Sister Goff was a model home-maker, and delightful in hospitality. Her religious experience was of the quiet, calm, deep-rooted sort that left no doubt in the minds of those who knew her regarding its quality. She was always wonderfully interested in the temporalities of the church and left her touch most manifestly on both parsonage and church edifice. The community most highly respected her noble, womanly qualities, and the History Club, of which she was a member, made her its president. In recent years she has constantly failed in health, but so gradually that her dearest friends hardly realized that the end was near. Friday evening, however, June 15, 1900, she passed quietly away to her Father's house, leaving an aged father and mother, with sister and husband almost inconsolable. Hundreds attended the memorial services which took place in the church she loved so well, and followed her body to its last resting place in the village cemetery. She was a noble, womanly woman. L.P.T. [Northern Christian Advocate, (Syracuse, NY), Wednesday, July 11, 1900, P.15]