Mrs. Emma Randolph, corner of Third and A Streets, Sterling, is a daughter of Abiah and Polly Redfield; came to Illinois in 1855; married Edgar F. Randolph in 1860, who died Nov. 3, 1877, after a residence in Sterling, this county, of twenty-two years.

Portrait & Biographical 1885 Pg 513

(Emma Randolph was the proprietor of the Randolph House in Sterling for many years)