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Contributed by: Verle Randolph My Great Grandfather, Madison Asbury Randolph served in the 2nd ARKANSAS CAVALRY REGIMENT, UNION from June 1862 until the end of the war. He was mustered out in July 1865 in Tennessee. He was born about 1837 in Fayette County, Alabama and died in January 1923 in Summersville, Mo. About 1860 Madison traveled to St Charles County Missouri, just west of St Louis, with his older brother, Montgomery Campbell Randolph, Montgomery's wife and two small children. Montgomery was killed by bushwhackers about June 1862. In 1863 Madison married his brother's widow, Lydia Ann Cranford Randolph, after she had Montgomery's third son. After he was mustered out in 1865 he traveled back to Missouri and homesteaded a place just north of Summersville, Mo. He and Lydia had ten children. Madison and Lydia are buried in the Summersville cemetery on highway 17 just south of town. Summersville, Mo is located in Texas County. |
