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HiSTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY. 075~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
now carries a full line of buggies, wagons,
agricultural implements, harness and saddles,
and does both a wholesale and retail business
at the corner Elm and Pearl streets. He was
married in Dallas, in August, 1890, to Mrs.
G. Cockrell, the widow of R. B. Cockrell, and
a daughter of Samuel S. and Louise (Dusseau)
Jones, natives of Tennessee and France
respectively. The mother came to Dallas
county in 1844, with her parents, and settled
with the French colony. The parents were
married in Dallas county, and the mother
died in France in 1873, and the father now
resides at Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. and
Mrs. Kanady have one child, Gillie V. Mr.
Kanady is identified with the Democratic
party, and both he and his wife are members
of the Christian Church, corner Bryan and
Pearl streets. Residence, corner of Pearl and
Cottage streets.
AMBUEL. L. RANDLETT, Jri., son df
Samuel L. and Eliza V. (Parkerson)
Randlett, was born in St. Mary's parish;
Louisiana, in 1865. His father was born in
the State of Indiana in 1819, and there resided
until 1835. That year he moved to St.
Mary's parish, Louisiana, and resided with
his father, John Randlett, until the latter's
death, which occurred in 1862. In 1850 he
purchased a plantation of 1,100 acres, which
he operated up to the time of his death in
1882. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifth
Louisiana Cavalry, in Captain Gordy's Company.
In 1862 he was detailed to serve in
the Commissary department; under Captain
Kerr, which position he held until the close
of the war. In politics he was an old-line
Whig. Ile was an active member and liberal
supl)orter of the Episcopal Church; was prominent
in the Masonic circles, having been
a member for forty years and having held
high positions in Master Mason,'Royal Arch
and Knight Templar degrees. Generosity
and honesty were his most prominent characteristics.
The mother of our subject was born
in Louisiana in 1827, daughter of James and
Mary (Drehr) Parkerson, her father a native
of Sweden and her mother of South Carolina.
Her parents moved from South Carolina to
Louisiana in 1812, going overland by the
way of Natchez, Mississippi, to the parish of
East Feliciana, thence to St. Mary's parish,
where he still resides. Mr. Randlett's paternal
grandmother was a Catholic and still adheres
to the faith. Her education was acquired
in a convent. His mother was of a
very kind, generous and affectionate disposition;
was a zealous member of the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Randlett is the next to the
youngest in a family of seven children, as
follows: James, who died in childhood;
Lyman was killed when young by being
thrown from a horse; Kate is now the wife
of Rev. G. R. Scott, a Baptist minister at
Montague county, Texas; Elnora, deceased,
was the wife of James W. Reilly, manager
of a sugar plantation in St. Mary's parish,
Louisiana; Alice, widow of Edward C. Atkinson,
assistant superintendent of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company. She still
resides at Houston, Texas; the sixth born, as
already stated, is the subject of this sketch;
and Warren died in Juily, 1889, at Corsicana,
Navarro county, Texas.
Samuel L. Randlett received a very good
education at Franklin, Louisiana, and remained
at home with his parents until 1881,
in which year he moved to Texas and located
in Houston, where he apprenticed himself to
an engineer. He remained there four years
and then returned to Louisiana, obtained at
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/729/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.