Meriwether
Lewis
Randolph
Born in Edge Hill, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Brother of
Anne Cary (Randolph) Bankhead, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Ellen Randolph, Ellen Wayles Randolph, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, Virginia Jefferson (Randolph) Trist, Mary Jefferson Randolph, James Madison Randolph, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Septimia Anne (Randolph) Meikleham and George Wythe Randolph
Husband of
Elizabeth (Martin) Donelson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
Lewis Jackson Randolph
Died in Kansas, Clark Co, Arkansas, United States
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Meriweather died of malaria in Clark County, Arkansas, on 24 September 1837, and was buried on his newly established plantation, Terre Noire.
On April 9, 1835, Randolph married Elizabeth (Betty) Martin, President Andrew Jackson’s grand-niece.
Randolph purchased 10k acres in Clark County, AR. By the summer of 1837, he had cleared and cultivated 300 acres and built a “dog-trot” house where he, Betty, and their ONLY child ...... young son; Lewis Jackson Randolph, b 1836 @ Terre Noire home.[1] He was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Martin and they had issue; a son Lewis Jackson RANDOLPH b 1836 @ Terre Noire, Clark County, AR Betty MARTIN Randolph returned to Tennessee in 1837 after her husband died.
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #13023971
- http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1316
- Stanard, William G. (1899), "The Randolph Family", in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, no. 2 (Oct 1899), p. 120 (apparently not correct).
- Anderson, J.R. "Tuckahoe and the Tuckahoe Randolphs", in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 45, no. 1 (Jan 1937), p. 74, J.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Meriwether by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
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Meriwether is 22 degrees from Charlotte Brontë, 13 degrees from Louisa May Alcott, 31 degrees from Victoria Benedictsson, 16 degrees from Rosalind Nield, 16 degrees from Elizabeth Gaskell, 22 degrees from Amy de Leeuw, 9 degrees from Harriet Arbuthnot, 17 degrees from Aurore Dupin de Francueil, 25 degrees from Isabella Crawford and 17 degrees from Barry Smith on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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