William Randall - I26251 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

William Randall (I26251)

Surname: Randall
Given Names: William

Gender: Male

Birth: 7 July 1808 -- Milton, Galway, Saratoga, Ny
Death: 4 January 1894 -- Laona, Winnebago, Il

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Joyce Lundin, a Phipps family genealogist, quotes from a paper written by Helen Tombs Gray, a descendant of William Randall's daughter, Emily: "Wm. Randall with his wife Sophia Plomteaux decided to leave N.Y. State ‎[in about 1837]‎ and seek fortune in the west, whence wonderful stories of opportunity had come back from his brother Jonathan ‎[?]‎ who had gone on ahead. So William sold his canal boat, to be delivered at the western end of the canal ‎(Erie)‎, loaded his wife, children ‎[Henry and Eliza]‎, mother ‎[Sarah Randall]‎ and sister ‎[Eliza Randall]‎ with what few possessions they could take upon the boat, and set out for unknown lands. After leaving the boat, they visited relatives here and there and also friends who had preceded them. June ‎[1838]‎ found them in Ypsilanti, Mich. where their third child was born. They called this little girl Emily."

William and Sophia Randall moved their family from Ypsilanti in Washtenaw County, MI to Laona Township in Winnebago County, IL, sometime after Emily's birth in June of 1838.

The William Randall family lived in Laona Township in Winnebago County, IL, when the 1840 U.S. Census was taken. Their household consisted of two males, one aged 5-10 years ‎(Henry P.)‎ and one aged 30-40 ‎(William himself, aged 32)‎; and five females, two under 5 years ‎(Eliza, Emily)‎, two aged 20-30 ‎(wife Sophia and perhaps a younger sister)‎, and one aged 50-60 ‎(perhaps William's mother, Sarah Randall, who would have been about 58 in 1840)‎. William's sister Sarah and her husband Amos N. Gage lived in an adjacent household. His sister Mahala and her family, that of James Ripley, and the family of his sister Ruama, that of William H. Stephens, also lived in Laona Township in 1840.

Between 1843 and 1848, William Randall bought nine parcels of federal land totaling more than 600 acres in Laona and Durand Townships in Winnebago County, IL. His first purchase of federal land was for 80 acres in Section 5 of Durand Township ‎(T28N R10E)‎ in May of 1843 and was made with a partner, Alfred Evans. Most of the land he purchased in subsequent years was in Section 33 of Laona Township. His brothers-in-law, James Ripley and Amos N. Gage ‎(and perhaps his niece's husband, Thomas Hamilton, although he lived in WI)‎, also purchased land in Laona Township in Sections 26 and 33 in 1847 and 1848.


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	Events of close relatives
Birth	7 July 1808 2527 Milton, Galway, Saratoga, Ny
Marriage	27 September 1829 (Age 21) Sophia Plomteaux - ‎[View Family ‎(F10545)‎‎] Camilus, Onondaga, Ny
Marriage of father	5 March 1846 (Age 37) Joshua R Randall (I26246) (Age 63) - [Relationship Chart] Hannah Dingham (I44126) - [Relationship Chart] ‎[View Family ‎(F19199)‎‎]
Death of father	1852 (Age 44) Joshua R Randall (I26246) (Age 70) - [Relationship Chart]
Marriage	25 June 1853 (Age 44) Christine Elizabeth Phipps - ‎[View Family ‎(F19144)‎‎] Durand, Winnebago, Il
Death of mother	4 March 1865 (Age 56) Sarah ‎(Sally)‎ Smith (I26247) (Age 84) - [Relationship Chart]
Marriage	24 October 1877 (Age 69) Mary Bell Davis - ‎[View Family ‎(F18882)‎‎]
Residence	Laona, Winnebago, IL ‎(1840, 1850, 1860)‎
Death	4 January 1894 (Age 85) Laona, Winnebago, Il
Burial	5 January 1894 Laona Cem., Durand, Winnebago, Il
Universal Identifier	7AE5152A259E2545B0185A72DD71DB98204B
Last Change	1 August 2006 - 03:47:14