Col. E.G. Randolph      1890  Grant & Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Submitted By: Kay Thompson - Brown

Source: Biographical and historical memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
          Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company 1890



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Col. E.G. Randolph, planter, Faimount, La.  South Carolina has given to Grant
Parish many estimable citizens but she has contributed none more highly
respected or for conscientious discharge of duty in every relation of life
more worth of respect and esteem than the subject of this sketch.

Col. Randolph was born in Fairfield District in 1829 and is a son of Beverly H
and Marie (Bulephant) Randolph natives of Virginia, the former born in New
Kent and the latter in Norfolk, Va. The father was a cabinet maker by trade
and carried this on in South Carolina until 1855 when he moved to Bossier
Parish, La and settled near Red River. The mother received her final summons
in the Palmetto State.

Col. E.G. Randolph was reared in his native State, received his education in
Mount Zion College and has also read law and studied medicine. After finishing
his education he began speculating in real estate and otherwise and in
connection was also engaged in merchandising for some time in South Carolina.

In 1852 he emigrated to Bossier Parish, La bought land there the following
year and there made his home until 1875 when he came to Grant Parish where he
has since resided. He is the owner of 1,000 acres of land on red River but his
principal farming interest is back on the Bayou four miles west of the river
where he has 3,000 acres.


During the Mexican War he was in the Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina
Volunteers as a non- commissioned officer and served all thorough that war. He
was with Gen Scott at Vera Cruz and in fact was in all the engagements in
which his famous regiment participated.

Early in 1861 Col. Randolph organized the first company in Bossier Parish was
made captain of the same and on the organization of the Ninth Regiment of
Louisiana Infantry he was made lieutenant-colonel and later colonel. He was in
Virginia with his regiment when he received the commission of colonel and the
balance of the time he was stationed at Shreveport. He was paroled on June 8,
1865.

While in the Mexican War the Colonel was clerk of the regiment and was color
guard. He was tendered the thanks of the State of South Carolina and presented
with a silver medal for his gallantry and bravery on the field of battle being
wounded at the battle of Chernbusco. On the establishment of the Nicholls
Government in 1877 he represented Grant Parish for two years in the General
Assembly.

Previous to the war in 1854 he was married to Miss Mary E Thompson a native of
South Carolina and to them were born nine children five of whom survive:
Edward H. (An attorney at Shreveport, La, R.L. (A physician at Alexandria,
La), John (a planter in Grant Parish), Beverly H. (In New Orleans), and Sallie
G (at home.

Col. Randolph is both a Mason and Odd Fellow and in politics is an
uncompromising Democrat. He comes of a good old fighting stock, his
grandfather, William Randolph, having been a colonel of a Virginia Regiment,
in the Revolutionary War and his father a soldier in the War of 1812.The
Colonel himself, as has been seen, has not been backward in that direction.

The Randolph family is of English descent and on the Bulephant side, the
Colonel is of French ancestry. His grandfather Bulephant came from France with
French soldiers to take part in the Revolution.