William Randles
William Randles was born in Virginia in February 1786, the youngest of five children, and came down into Sevier County, Tennessee with his brothers while the country was still new. He married Elizabeth McConney in September 1808, when he was twenty two and she was eighteen, and they had nine children. His name is on a survey beside Edmund Hodges' as early as 1824.
The middle of his life is a run of debt. In December 1845 he went surety on his son's bond as deputy sheriff of the county and the bond went bad, and eleven weeks later, in February 1846, he signed away every movable thing he owned to protect the men who had gone surety for him: two beds and bedding, nine chairs, a clock, two tables, three pots, two ovens, a cotton wheel, a flax wheel, seven head of sheep, three head of cattle, thirty head of hogs. Two of the three men named in that deed, William M. and Samuel W. Randles, are taken to be his sons. In 1850 he and Samuel were called to the same jury, listed one after the other, and the census that year found him and Elizabeth keeping house alone, the nine children gone.
She died in the August of 1869 and the following summer the enumerator found him across the county line in Jefferson County, eighty four years old, living in another family's house. He died there in December 1873, in his eighty eighth year.
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Cite: Heirology, "William Randles (1786-1873)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-randles-1786-1873-521e19.