Sarah "Sallie"
Kyle & Dr. John Leonard Randal
Sarah M KYLE
was born 1807, NC, the daughter of James
& Alley KYLE. She married Dr.
John Leonard RANDAL abt 1830, in McNairy
Co, Tennessee. Dr. John Leonard RANDAL,
born 11 Feb 1800, in Stokes County, NC. He was
the son of John BULL RANDAL (1766 Halifax Co,
NC-1851 GA) & Hannah HARVEY (1776 NC-1832
GA). In 1803, John BULL (RANDAL) & his wife,
Hannah, petitioned the State of NC to change
their name and that of their four children from
BULL to RANDAL. The General Assembly of State
Legislature at Raleigh, NC ratified the name
change on 22 Dec 1803. In later years the
spelling evolved from RANDAL to RANDALL, when a
clerical error doubled the "L". By
1818, RANDAL's parents moved
from NC to Franklin County, Georgia, where his
mother & father lived out the remainder of
their lives.
Dr.
RANDAL received his medical training at
the Cincinnati Medical College. In the late fall
of 1838, Sallie and John Leonard moved from
Salem, Benton Co, Mississippi to East Texas about
a mile and a half from San Augustine. They came,
in tow, with their five (5) small children, Lois
Almedia (age 7), Horace (age 5), Susannah
Elizabeth (age 3), Mollie Emily (age 2) and an
infant, John "Leonard", Jr. Their last
three (3) children, Sarah, Eliza & Solon were
born in Texas. He received his conditional
certificate for land on 07 Jun 1839, and his
unconditional certificate on 06 May 1844. He
constructed a large two-story house that
functioned as his residence and as a hospital for
his patients. The house still stood in 1958, (and
perhaps still does) near the town of San
Augustine (San Augustine Co). It had (hass) 4
fireplaces and the stone in these were made from
hand hewn stone by Dr RANDAL's
slaves.
Dr.
RANDAL succeeded James Gaines in the
called session of the Sixth Congress in 1842, as
a representative of the Shelby, Sabine, and
Harrison districts in the Senate. He was
re-elected to the same office in the Seventh
Congress, 1842-43. He joined the United States
Army during the Mexican War and was appointed
assistant surgeon on 03 Mar 1847. He was assigned
to the 12th Infantry on 09 Apr and resigned on 03
Aug 1847.
In
1858, John Leonard and Sallie
sold their property in San Augustine County and
moved to Smith County, where, on 27 Sep 1859,
they purchased 640 acres a few miles northeast of
Tyler. On 10 May 1862, Dr. RANDAL
enlisted in the Army of the
Confederate States of America, 28th Texas
Cavalry,
as regimental surgeon. He was recruited by his
son, regimental commander Col. Horace
RANDAL,
one of the first Texans to graduate from West
Point Military Academy. Later, Dr. RANDAL
was appointed surgeon of the Second Brigade of
Gen. John G. Walker's division. His service,
primarily in Arkansas, was cut short by his
failing health. On 22 Mar 1863, he submitted his
resignation, which was accepted on 09 Jun 1863.
He sold his farm in Smith County on 22 Aug 1863.
In 1867, he was paying taxes on a section of land
in Grimes County. In 1868 he disposed of that
property and purchased a 130-acre farm in Brazos
County a few miles from Bryan.
Sarah
McNeil KYLE, died in 1893, and is buried
in the "old" Alvin City Cem, Brazoria
Co, Texas. She is reportedly a descendant of Lord
James Stanhope, of Armagh
Manor, of Ireland, who, as one story goes,
disinherited Sarah's mother, Alley, for marrying.
It was after their marriage that James Kyle &
Alley McNeill came to America.
Dr.
RANDAL died several years earlier, in
1874, at his farm in Bryan, Brazos Co, Texas. He
is reportedly buried at Boonville Cemetery
located outside of Bryan, Texas in an unmarked
grave. Dr. RANDAL, born in North
Carolina, and an Englishman by descent, reputedly
inherited a considerable estate in England but
preferred to remain a citizen of Texas and
refused to claim his inheritance.
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Sallie
KYLE RANDAL's brothers, Robert E KYLE (my ancestor) and Dr. James Stanhope KYLE, came from Tippah Co,
Mississippi to Texas. Robert arrived a year later
than Sallie & Dr. RANDAL,
Arriving in 1839, Robert first
settled in Nacogdoches County and later in Panola
County, Texas on McFadden Creek. Dr.
James Stanhope Kyle, their older
brother, was attempting to establish a medical
practice in Tippah Co, MS. He graduated from the
Ohio College of Medicine on 08 Mar 1837.
Dr. Kyle married in May 1841, and left
immediately with his new bride - headed for East
Texas to be near his brother Robert,
they traveled by two-horse wagon. One horse died
on the way. They finally landed at the McFadden
Creek home of his brother with one horse and
$500. of Salem, MS on May 4, 1841.
Dr. KYLE's
diploma was written, in Latin, on sheepskin. In
1950, It was in the possession of Wm Penn KYLE (1884-1969), of Teneha, Shelby Co,
TX, son of Robert E KYLE, Jr.
had possession of the original. Wm Penn KYLE was
the grandson of Robert E KYLE, Sr
and grand-nephew to Dr. James S. KYLE.
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Kyle & Randal
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 Horace
RANDAL was
born in 01 Jan 1833, McNairy County, Tennessee.
He not only was a "New Year's baby",
but was the the 1st born son, and 2nd child of
eight (8) children born to Sarah
"Sallie" M. KYLE & Dr. John Leonard
RANDAL. In the fall of 1838, his parents moved
from Tennessee to the San Augustine area of East
Texas when he was but five years old.
Horace
was one of the first graduates
from the West Point Military Academy from Texas.
In 1849, Horace
and James B. McINTYRE
became the first Texas appointees to the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point. Due to his
deficiency in mathematics and English, he spent
five (5) years at the academy and thus was the
2nd Texas graduate from West Point. He graduated
01 Jul 1854, and was brevetted second lieutenant
in the Eighth United States Infantry.
On
March 3, 1855, he was transferred to Company G,
1st Dragoons, with the substantive rank of 2nd
lieutenant. He subsequently served continuously
on frontier duty in Indian Territory, Arizona,
New Mexico, and at Fort Bliss and Fort Davis in
Texas. RANDAL
resigned from the United States Army on 27 Feb
1861 and went into the Confederate service. He
was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in the cavalry
on 16 Mar 1861. He first served in Gen.
Braxton BRAGG's quartermaster
corps at Pensacola, Florida, and was later
transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia. On
16 Nov 1861, he was appointed
"aide-de-camp" to Maj. Gen.
Gustavus W. SMITH. He was
commissioned a "Colonel of Cavalry" on
18 Feb 1862, and recruited the 28th Texas
(Dismounted) Cavalry regiment in and
around Marshall, Harrison Co, Texas. RANDAL
recruited his father, Dr. John
Leonard Randal, Surgeon, brother, and
brother-in-law as members of his regimental
staff. Also enlisted in the 28th Texas
(Dismounted) Cavalry regiment "Company K", were Allen Bonnell BRYAN (son of Allen
BRYAN & Sarah
POU), Daniel E KING & Stephen
"Thomas" KING, (sons of Stephen
KING & Sarah
E DUPREE) and Wm Tell POU, son of (John
POU, III & Mary
DURHAM). On 09 Jul 1862, the
regiment of twelve (12) Companies paraded through
Marshall and left for Little Rock, Arkansas to
join what later became the 2nd Brigade of Gen.
John G. WALKER's Texas
(Greyhound) Division. As a colonel, RANDAL
was appointed brigade commander on 03 Sep 1862,
and served in Arkansas and Louisiana. He led the
brigade at Milliken's Bend during the Vicksburg
Campaign in June 1863, and in repulsing Maj. Gen.
Nathaniel P. BANKs's Red River campaign in the
spring of 1864. He was appointed brigadier
general by Gen. E. Kirby SMITH
on 08 Apr 1864, but his promotion was never
confirmed by the Confederate government, as he
died a few weeks later.
RANDAL
was first married to Julia S.
BASSETT, daughter of Abner
BASSETT, on 02 Jun 1858, in New London,
Connecticut. She accompanied him to the
southwestern frontier and was living with him in
1860, at Fort Buchanan, New Mexico Territory,
fifty (50) miles southeast of Tucson. Julia
was unable to withstand the rigors of frontier
life and died, childless, in the fall of 1860.
(NOTE: Some reports have Julia dying in Jan 1861,
as well as an infant child born to her). Horace
next married Nancy
"Nannie" E. TAYLOR on
08 Jul 1862, in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas,
on the eve of his departure with his newly
organized regiment, the 28th Texas
(Dismounted) Cavalry. Horace
and Nannie had
one son, Horace RANDAL, Jr.,
born in December 1863 in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Texas. Brig. General
RANDAL died of wounds on 02 May
1864, he received at the Battle of Jenkins'
Ferry, Arkansas, on 30 Apr 1864. He was first
buried at the hamlet of Tulip, Arkansas, near the
battlefield. His remains were later removed to
the Old Marshall Cemetery in Marshall, Harrison
County, Texas. A state marker was erected at his
grave in 1962. Randall County was named for him.
In
a letter to the soldiers of the Trans-Mississippi
Department by General E. Kirby SMITH, 03 May
1864, “Once more in the hour of victory
we are called upon to mourn the heroic dead.
Generals W. R. SCURRY and Horace
RANDAL have fallen upon the
field of honor. At Jenkins' Ferry they offered
themselves up precious victims on the altar of
liberty. MOUTON and GREEN are gone; SCURRY and RANDAL
have followed on the same glorious path. Be it
ours to emulate their virtues and valor, and to
act as men not unworthy to associate with such
heroes. The colors of their respective brigades
will be draped in mourning for thirty days”.
NOTE:
The following year (1865), James A BROCKS,
brother-in-law to the late, Horace RANDAL,
and husband of Mary "Mollie" Emily
KYLE, died during the Battle of Thompson
Station, Tennessee.
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Horace Randal
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