Obituary for A. G. Randle, Randolph, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/obits/agrandle.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: William Fischer, Jr. ==================================================================== March 2001 MR. RANDLE DIES ---------------------------- Mr. A. G. RANDLE passed peacefully away in the early hours of last night at his home in this place, after an illness of three weeks. He was one of Roanoke's best known and most respected citizens -- a gentleman of kindly nature and noble principles. He leaves a widow [Carrie RANDLE] and three children. It is announced that the interment will [sic] occur in Roanoke [Cedarwood cemetery] tomorrow at ten o'clock from the Methodist church. Mrs. F. P. RANDLE was called here by the fatal illness of A. G. RANDLE. [From The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama), 4 Jan 1911, p.1] ------------------------ OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE ------------------------- Last Thursday the writer had the sad experience of attending the funeral services of an old friend, Mr. A. G. RANDLE, which occurred from his late residence in this place. This residence is one of the few old original houses built when Roanoke was but a village. It was used many years in the far past as parsonage of the Roanoke Circuit [of the Methodist Church]. Besides the melancholy scene of Thursday there came before the writer's vision a like occasion when, over twenty years ago, under the same roof, the members of our own household were the mourners over the bier of a beloved husband and father. And back beyond that time and since we recall that members of other families have been borne out from this same old house to the restful cemetery so near at hand [Cedarwood]. These sad reflections bring afresh to mind a fact which we are too prone to forget -- how sure and soon is the coming of the time when the spirit of each of us shall be borne out of the old house of this tabernacle of clay into the realms which no traveler's feet have ever retraced. In the midst of our seeking and our striving after pleasure and after gain, it is wise and well for us to pause and give some serious thought to these unchanging verities, and thinking, turn our steps towards wisdom's ways and make the proper preparation for the exchange of this world for another. That one is worse than foolish who lives alone for this life and lays up his treasures in earthly houses, from which he must hasten to a mansionless eternity. [From The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama), 11 Jan 1911, p.4] [Mr. A. G. RANDLE is probably interred in the unmarked RANDLE family plot at Cedarwood cemetery in Roanoke.]