A granddaughter of the Randalls wrote many years ago about her 

 grandmother: 



[Sarah Randall] carried on an active business in butter 

 and other dairy products with commission merchants 

 in San Francisco. The products were shipped by small 

 boats from Bolinas .... My grandmother was active 

 in the pioneer Methodist church. Seminary students 

 came by horseback on Saturdays. She housed them 

 until Monday morning when they returned to San 

 Rafael, after preaching on Sundays. She also helped 

 to establish the Sunday School in Bolinas. 



Mrs. Randall was among the founders, along with neighbors Nelson Olds and L. 

 K. Baldwin, of a "Tent of the Order of Rechabites" in Olema in 1870. 62 



By 1880 it appears that Sarah Randall did not live on the ranch at all and 

 that all Seavers were gone. The census that year lists William J. Randall at the 

 old Seaver dairy (near today's Hagmaier Ranch), where he, his wife Abbie and a 

 farm laborer owned 40 milk cows as well as horses and calves. Randall did not 

 make butter, but sold 17,875 gallons of milk to a creamery. His ranch was 

 valued at $8200. Raymond Randall rented the main ranch from his mother for 

 shares of the produce. Living with him was his wife Hattie, infant daughter 

 Lottie, sister Mary the schoolteacher, and two hired hands. The dairy sold 

 35,007 gallons of milk to a creamery, from 67 cows. The ranch also housed 

 eight horses, 72 calves and other cattle, 60 pigs and 24 chickens. The value of 

 all products was listed at $3475, with a total value of the farm at almost 

 $13,000. 63 



Perhaps to accommodate Raymond's growing family, Mrs. Randall had a 

 larger house built east of the county road, across the road from the dairy 

 buildings. The exact date of construction is unclear; the 1880 census does not 

 reflect an outstanding improvement in the value of the buildings there. One 

 report states that Mrs. Randall began construction in 1880 and completed the 

 house in 1881. The two-story Victorian, with elegant trim and ample space, 



from Lottie Randall Taylor (daughter of Raymond Randall), age 88, May 1968, Jack Mason 

 Museum Collection. 



62 "Personal History," p. 2; Marin County Journal. June 11, 1870. 

 "Population and Agricultural Schedules, 10th U. S. Census, 1880. 



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