Selma,

Very enlightening and interesting posting.. This passage caught my attention and I may have something to add to Mr. Goings narrative.
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"He worked as a cook in Cleveland, Ohio, a restaurant worker in Detroit, Michigan, arriving in Toledo sometime in late 1839 or early 1840 where he worked as a barber. He would leave Toledo heading for Fort Wayne, Indiana but would settle in Perrysburg, Ohio, a stop on the UGRR. For 2 years he would live with Joseph LANGFORD/LANKFORD, who was an AA conductor on the UGRR. Sometime in late 1842 or early 1843, Goings escapes to Canada finally settling in Chatham, Ontario."
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Barbering, Perrysburg & Toledo, OH and the UGRR are all connected to a great-great granduncle, David Adams, of Findlay, OH. David Adams was a Barber and transported fugitive slaves thru Perrysburg and points northward as seen in this excerpt from an interview of David Adams found in the Wilber H. Siebert Collection of UGRR works found at the Ohio Historical Society.

"I came to Findlay in Oct. 1848. I would get a note to be sent south of Chamber Hill, 2 miles south of Findlay, to meet passengers. I never knew the parties or conductors- sometimes one, sometimes another, would bring the fugitives to the place agree upon.
At the edge of the woods I'd find the passengers and would run them out to old man King's (Wm., I think) 9 miles north and leave them there till the next night, and then go and get them and take them on to Perrysburg, 36 miles. I used to deliver them
to a barber in town, who turned them over to Wm. Merriton, the other side of the Maumee River. Generally from there they were forwarded across the Michigan line. We used to take them different ways. I would sometimes, when the way was clear, disguise
them and take them to Sandusky City- aboard the Mad River R.R. I remember I took one
fellow-kind of feminine looking fellow, made him dress an took him through as my lady."
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I doubt if the paths of David Adams & Henry Goings passed, but the locations, occupations and other parts of the narratives certainly seem to agree.

Thanks for sharing the Goings narrative.

Art Thomas

Findlay, Ohio UGRR Operator David Adams on far right.