From the Winfield, Kansas Courier
Another Pioneer Gone
Died in Vernon township, Feb. 20th, 1884, Mrs. N. A., widow of the late Thomas Randall, aged 72 years, 5 months and 26 days. She was born in Boston, Mass. At the age of 22 she became the subject of saving grace and united with the Baptist church, in which communion she lived and walked with Christ for fifty years. In 1879 they celebrated their golden wedding. One year afterward, Mr Randall was called home, leaving her with six of the ten children she had born to him to mourn his loss, one of them well known here, I. W. Randall, who superintended the construction of the Baptist church edifice in this city. Mrs. Randall was endowed by nature with an amiable disposition and gentle spirit. The strongest element in her nature was love. In her departure from earth, she was calm and triumphant, longing to be with Jesus and him with whom she had traveled earth's maize so long, strong as were the ties that bound her to her children and the many kind neighbors among whom she had lived so long and was so dearly beloved, yet the great object of her life had been to prepare for the "house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens." She welcomed the summons and entered the upper sanctuary sustained by that faith in which she had lived so long. It is such characters as these that have given Cowley county its moral standing, unsurpassed east or west and makes it the most desirable home of the good and true citizen. Frater.
The above were among the early settlers of this county, living in Harrison township for twenty years previous to their moving to Kansas, and were the father and mother of Postmaster Randall.