William Randolph
William Randolph, Farmer; P. O. Sidney, Ohio.
Mr. Randolph was born in Clarke County, Ohio, July 13, 1826, and came with his parents, James B. F. and Rachel Randolph, to Miami County in 1838, who settled near Piqua, where young Randolph grew to manhood. November 27, 1850, he married Miss Sarah E. Bull, daughter of John and Eliza Bull. Miss Bull was born in Greene County, Ohio, September 3, 1829, and came to Shelby County with her parents in 1832, who settled in Orange Township, where they now reside. In 1853 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph settled on the farm in Green Township in section 29, where they are now living. They reared a family of eight sons, five of whom are yet at home with their parents. Mr. Randolph’s first purchase of land was the northwest quarter of section 29, Green Township. He has made other purchases of land at different times, until he now owns about two hundred and eighty acres of land, all under a good state of cultivation. He has one of the finest brick dwellings in the township, which be erected in 1875, and is one among the leading farmers in Green Township.
His parents, James B. F. and Rachel Randolph, came to Shelby County in 1853, and settled in Turtle Creek Township, where Mr. Randolph died August 9, 1874, aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Randolph is still living in that township at the advanced age of eighty-nine years, and enjoying good health for one of her age.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883