GOFF, Charles

Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, September 28, 1932, page 1, column 3 Dewey Man Dies Of Burns Today Kerosene explosions in rural Yavapai county Sunday and yesterday in the homes of two bachelors cost one of them his life and both of them their residence. Charles Goff, sixty, poultryman residing on a little ranch a quarter of -a-mile northwest of Dewey, died in the Yavapai county hospital in Miller Valley today of burns he sustained Sunday afternoon late in a fire that destroyed his three-room residence and another small house he owned nearby. Goff, neighbors said, was preparing his supper over a small oil stove about five o'clock Sunday afternoon when the stove supposedly exploded. The elderly man's clothing caught fire. He was found lying on the ground outside. By the time neighbors arrived, attracted by the flames which were spreading rapidly, the fire had ignited a small house nearby in which he had grain stored. Because there was no means of fighting the fire effectively, the buildings burned to the ground. Goff was hurried to the county hospital with first degree burns. Death occurred at six o'clock this morning. Goff was said by neighbors to have lived in the Dewey district alone for fourteen or fifteen years. James Goff of Iowa, who has been notified, is a brother and Lou Steger of Petal, near San Francisco, is a brother-in-law, it was said.