The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-10-27
For the Central Presbyterian.
Rev. John H. Rice, d. D.
In Richmond l8l2-1923.
Judith Randolph.

After the death of Mrs. Randolph
son, in August, 1915, Mr.. and Mrs. Rice
urged her to reside with them. This she
did until her own decease, on the 10th OF
March, 1916.
This lady was the daughter OF Thomas
Mason Randolph, and was related to her
husband, Richard Randolph, the brother
of John Randol ph of Roanoke.
John Randolph's regard and affection
for his brother was one of the few ale
viations of his melancholy life; and Of
the several bitter disappointment which,
acting upon his peculiar temperament
are supposed to have finally contributed
to a state bordering on insanity, the ex.
tinction of this brothers family, and with
it, the name of the Randolphs to which
he belonged, is supposed to have been
the overpowering and crushing grief.
Mrs. Judith Randolph, the wife of his
brother, was to him as a sister. He hon.
ored and loved her. In the home oil
these two he found all the comfort that
even he required he admired the ma
tronly virtues of his sister-in-law, and
looked upon his brother as his superior
in intellectual endowments while upon
their children he bestowed the affection
and care which naturally sprung from
his relation to them, and the peculiar
hopes for his family name which depend.
ed upon their lives and their honorable
department. But darker shadow than
the death of these parents and their chill.
dren first fell upon the house of Richard
Randolph. Happily the memory of a
celebrated case, once before Virginia
court, in which he was one of the accused,
has passed away with the generation OF
that. time, and is lightly touched by those
who have written of the persons con-
cerned. 1t is mentioned here as the prin-
cipal one of the great sorrows of Mrs.
Randolph's life, and to show the deep
meaning of her words, already quoted,
in which she refers to the perfect re-
covery of her long lost peace Of mind, y
under the ministrations of the young
pastor in Charlotte, in whose house she
found Z" the abode of rational piety and
real happiness.
Such an illustration of misery in those
circles which are looked upon as the ia.
vored ones is we'll adapted to correct
some of the false valuations of life that
are prevalent And such an example oil
the power of religion to give consolation
is worthy OF record, in a memoir of the
faithful pastor, whose pious solicitude
was thus blessed and honored by divine
grace. These incidents seem here appro.
pirate also because of their relation to
the great and eccentric statesman whose
expressions of afectionate feeling and re-
ligious convictions on this occasion are
deeply interesting and instructive and
in the working of his mind and heart we
find the fruits of ministerial fidelity and
cody example, as he was impressed by
them in the counsels and the lives Of
Revs. Dr. Hoge and Mr.. Rice and Mr.
Lyle, and others of the Presbyterian cler.
~ whom he held in such high esteem.
Richard Randolph died at the age o.
twenty six. He left two sons The older
one, afflicted from his birth, became, il
manhood, maniac. The younger one
Tudor, educated with 80 much care be
gan, as early as 1914, to show the symp
toms Of fatal consumption. The situa
ton Of the mother and uncle is described
in letter from the latter, dated July
3lst Of that year. Affection has as
sailed me in a new shape. Ny younger
nephew has fallen, fear, into con
hrmed pulmonary consumptive. He wa
the pride, the sole hope Of our family
How shall / announce to his wretcheC
mother that the last hope Of her Widowed
life is falling Give me some comfort
my good friend, 1 beseech you. He il
now travelling, by slow journeys, home
What q scene aHaItg him there Hi