Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1920 — FUNERAL OF JAMES T. RANDLE [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL OF JAMES T. RANDLE

JASPER COUNTY PIONEER IS LAID TO REST IN WESTON CEMETERY The funeral of James T. Randle, who died at the home of his son. Edward Randle, at the comer of Cullen, and Susan streets, on Sunday . March 28, was held at the Trdhity, M. E. Church in this city Tuesday , afternoon and interment was made ‘in Weston cemetery. - --f The services were in charge of the Rev. E. W. Strecker. | In keeping with the esteem in which Mr. Randle was held by the people of this community ‘the ser- ; vices were attended by a very large number of relatives and friends and the floral offerings were many and beautiful. ! The following obituary fwas read at the services: j James T. Randle, the eldest son of Thomas and Nancy Randle, was bom in Hampshire County, West Virginia, October 10, 1831, and died March 28, 1920, at the age of 88 years 5 months and 17 days. ■ As an infant he traveled with his 1 parents in a covered wagon, and after a journey of 27 days over t rough ways, thru forests and swamps, they located about four miles south of the present site of Delphi. In 1834 his father secured j lands in what is now Barkley township and in the spring of 1835 hemoved his family to his newly acquired lands. These few acres were the nucleus of the farm which, under the successful management of the father, Thomas, the son, James T. grew to greater proportions. His entire life was spent on the farm in Jasper county until he moved to Rensselaer in 1883 where he has lived ever since.

In 1854 he married Mary E. Overton, whose parents were also among the early SBttlers of Hanging drove and .whose death occurred August 14, 1877. To this union were horn five children, Robert, of Parsons, Kansas; Thomas, of Hope, Kansas; John A., whose death occurred eighteen months ago; Emmeline Makeever and Edward J., of T> pnaoplopi* On November 24, 1878, he martied Euth A. Harris, daughter of Rial B. Benjamin and the widow of Wm. Harris. She died January 24, 1898. On May 25, 1899, he married his third wife, Mr*. Julia Enslen, who died May 14, 1910. When a young man he joined the Christian church. Later he became a member of the Berkley M. E. Church, and after 1883, when he came to Rensselaer to live, he transferred his membership to the Rensselaer M. E. Church. - He is survived Jpy one brother, Nelson Randle, of this city, four children, fourteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren.