Robert Carter Randolph (1808 - 1887)

Born 1 Dec 1808 in Clarke, Virginia, United States

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Died 14 Jan 1887 at age 78 in Jefferson, West Virginia, United States

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Robert Randolph is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

The "Dr. Robert C Randolph" whose ancestry is discussed by Slaughter.

Also the grandfather in the article by Robert Isham Randolph.

Had 6 sons (1 died unmarried) and 5 daughters (2 died in infancy).

GENEOLOGICAL APPENDIX [1]

Robert Carter Randolph (1808-1887) was a physician, born at "Carter Hall" Clarke County, Virginia, the son of Archibald Cary (1769-1813) and Lucy Burwell Randolph (1777-1810).

Robert took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1828 and married Lucy Nelson Wellford (1810-1882), daughter of Susan R.C. Nelson (1790-1869) and William Wellford, at "Chapel Hill" in 1830.

Robert C. Randolph and his family resided at "New Market" near Millwood until the death of his wife when he went to live with his son Thomas Randolph. Robert and Lucy had at least eleven children, nine of whom survived to adulthood. They included:

1) Betty Burwell Randolph Smith (1831-1899), m. Warren Christian Smith (1824-1888) of Summerville on February 18, 1862

2) Dr. Archibald Cary Randolph (1833-1887), m. Susan Burwell Henry on September 29, 1881, attended the University of Virginia in 1852, received medical degree in Philadelphia in 1859, and was a surgeon in General Fitzhugh Lee's Cavalry Division

3) Susan Wellford Randolph (1835-1896), m. William Eston Randolph on May 1, 1860, at "New Market"

4) William Wellford Randolph (1837-1864), m. Ada Stuart of King George County in 1863, attended the University of Virginia 1855-1856, was killed as a Colonel of the Second Regiment, Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864

5) Philip Burwell Randolph (1838-1857), died while attending the University of Virginia of typhoid fever, November 21, 1857

6) Robert Carter Randolph (1840-1864), killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, as Captain of Company C, Second Regiment, Stonewall Brigade

7) Thomas Hugh Burwell Randolph (1843-1900), m. E. Page Burwell of "Carter Hall" on February 4, 1869, wounded at the Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861, and imprisoned for two years on Johnston Island

8) Isham Randolph (1848-1920), m. Mary Henry Taylor on June 15, 1882, chiefly educated by his mother, became chief engineer for the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company in 1880, often employed as a consulting engineer on the national level

9) Polly Cary Randolph (?)

10) Lucy Wellford Randolph (1850-?), died in infancy

11) Catherine Isham Randolph (1854-?), died in infancy

Sources

• http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00184.xml;query=;

• Slaughter, Rev. Philip. History of Bristol Parish, 2nd edn. (1879), p. 220.

• Stanard, William G. "The Randolph Family", in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, no. 4 (Apr 1900), p. 264.

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/4244820

• Find A Grave: Memorial #141569776

• https://clarkecounty.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Randolph%2C+Robert+C.+%28Dr.%29

• https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/randolphrobert.xml

• https://archive.org/details/oldchapelclarkec00hugh/page/n5/