Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Randolph, G. B. 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    G. B. RANDOLPH, postmaster of Anniston, was born in Kentucky in 1844, a son
of William and Sarah C. L Crane) Randolph. The father was born in Loudoun
county, Va., in 1765, and was with St. Clair at the time of his defeat and was
afterward with Anthony Wayne. His duty was to keep the soldiers supplied with
powder. He removed to Louisville, Ky., in 1818, and cleared the ground on the
corner of Fifteenth and Broadway, and the log house he there built stood until
1862, when it was torn away to make room for a fort built by the Union forces to
repel the expected advance of Bragg's Confederate focres on his Kentucky
invasion in 1862. He was a son of John Randolph, a native of Loudoun county, Va.
Mrs. S. C. Randolph was a native of Maryland. G. B. Randolph was reared on the
farm and received a common school education. In 1861 he enlisted in company M,
Twelfth Kentucky cavalry, being then seventeen years of age, and served through
the entire war. His brother, William Randolph, came to Alabama in 1856, and at
the breaking out of the late war entered company E, Forty-fourth Alabama
infantry, as second lieutenant, while George B. was in the Union army. William
was subsequently, transferred to company C, of the Forty-fourth Alabama, and was
killed at Gettysburg, Pa., with the regimental colors in his hands. After peace
was declared, George B. remained in Alabama and first located at Montgomery,
where he remained until the fall of 1878 in the mercantile business, and also
deputy United States marshal, under Gen. R. W. Healy, for seven years; in 1878
he went to Bibb county, where he was connected with the timber business until
1881, then he went to Birmingham and bought forty acres, on which a part of the
city is built, but remained a short time only, when he was appointed agent for
the Alabama Mineral Land company, and then removed to Talladega, where he kept
up his connection with this company until 1883, when he located in Anniston,
Ala., and was appointed postmaster in 1889, a position he now holds. He is also
a member of the school board of the city of Anniston. September 11, 1872, he
married Elizabeth R. Lewis of Cincinnati, O., daughter of John and Adelia Lewis.
This happy union ahs been blessed with seven children, six of whom are living:
Ethel, George H., Raymond, Arthur A., William and John. The mother was born and
reared in Cincinnati. He and wife are members of the Episcopal church, while he
is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. and of the G. A. R. He is one of the leading
republicans of the state and wields a great influence in his party. Mr. Randolph
is one of the same family of Joan Randolph of Roanoke.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 613-614

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