Obit for Randall Williamson  -  Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source:  KINGFISHER DAILY FREE PRESS, Saturday, April 17, 1915 -
OBITUARY.


Randall WILLIAMSON (colored) departed this life April 13, 1915, at the
age of 64 years.  Funeral services were held at the Pilgrim Rest
Church, April 15th, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. E. DOUGLASS.
Interment in Kingfisher cemetery.  His Masonic brethren had charge of
the services at the grave.

Randall WILLIAMSON was born near Summersville, Fayette county,
Tennessee, about 1848.  Shortly after the civil war he was taken by
his sister to Memphis, where he grew to manhood.

In 1878 he was married to Miss Susie BROWN, to whom five children were
born, Joseph, Jerry, Stella, William and Millie Anna, four of whom are
dead.  His wife died on December 14, 1888.

Shortly after his wife's death he made a profession of religion and
joined St. Paul Missionary Baptist church at Memphis.

In April, 1892, when the C. and A. country opened to settlement he
came to Oklahoma and located in Kingfisher.  He worked here at manual
labor until he accumulated enough of this world's goods to embark into
the grocery business in a small way.  From this small beginning he
gradually built up a good business, and a few years ago erected a
two-story building on his site, which he continued until death.

Immediately after his arrival here he joined the Pilgrim Rest Baptist
church and became an active member in the upbuilding of the church.

In 1896, he was married a second time to Miss Mary BROWN of
Kingfisher.

In politics Mr. WILLIAMSON was a Republican and held to his political
faith with a tenacity almost as strong as that with which he clung to
his religious faith.

He served as a member of the school board for four years.  He was a 32
degree Mason.

He died as he lived, beloved by his race and accepted of God.