Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Randolph, Judge J. B., 1950
Friday, July 14, 2000

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 Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffin Harrison, Junction, Texas
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             District Judge J. B. Randolph Is Buried Here Last Week
                   Former Kimble Official Dies in Fort Stockton
                            Thursday, March 23, 1950

  Funeral services for District Judge J. B. Randolph, a leading figure in a progressive
era in Kimble County development, died in his home in Fort Stockton, March 15th, were
held Friday morning at 11 o'clock from the Hodges Funeral Home Chapel.
  The Rev. Olen D. Welch, Baptist minister, officiated.  Burial was made in the Junction
cemetery.
  Judge Randolph had presided over the 112th Judicial District of Texas since Sept. 13, 1945,
when he  was appointed by Governor Coke R. Stevenson to fill the vacancy left by the death
of Judge W. C. Jackson.  He had been in failing health for more than a year, but in recent
weeks had been unable to continue his duties, although he was not confined to his bed until
recent days.
  Upon his appointment to the office, Judge Randolph resigned his position as superintendent
of the Alabama-Coushatti Indian reservation near Livingston and sold his South Llano property,
the Hill Terrace Ranch.  Since that time he and Mrs. Randolph, the former Miss Mamie Terry
to whom he was married June 23, 1895, had lived in Ft. Stockton.  They own a home at Texas
and Oklahoma streets.
  Born in Madisonville, Texas, May 21, 1874, the jurist had been a practicing attorney most
of his adult life.  He concluded his 19th year as Kimble County judge in 1941 and moved from
town to the ranch.  About two years later he accepted the appointment of the Indian Reservation.
  Judge Randolph also served as Kimble County attorney two terms and served one term in the
Texas Legislature, which later sent Coke R. Stevenson, his long-time friend and associate,
to Austin for a political career which was climaxed by the occupancy of the governor's chair.
  Survivors include the widow, one son, Clyde of Baltimore, Md., two daughters, Mrs. Earl Tracy
and Mrs. Britt Allsup, seven grandchildren, Five great grandchildren, one brother, J. H. 
Randolph of Cherokee, six half-brothers, Warren Randolph, superintendent of schools of Cherokee;
Charles of Austin, Uriel of Texas A & M Extension Services; Neal, former Horticulture instructor
at John Tarleton State College; Tom Ball Randolph, owner of the old home place at Cherokee,
and three half-sisters.
  Pall bearers were Jim Carpenter, Odie Wright, Alton Mason, M. E. Blackburn, Callan Graham
and Reuben Loeffler.
  Among the out-of-town friends and relatives here for the services were District Attorney
Hart Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Lawler, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rooney, all of Fort Stockton;
Mr. and mrs. R. B. Blake and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Boyette, Austin; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Randolph,
Ellis Randolph, and Herbert Randolph, all of Cherokee; Houston Smith and J. W. Johnigan,
Ozona; Mr. and Mrs. Mack Earl McGuffin of New Orleans, La., Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mulholland of
El paso, and Clye (sic) Randolph of Baltimore, Md.
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