became a showplace in the Olema Valley and still stands today. According to 

 the county newspaper, Sarah Randall planned to have a new barn built in 1884. 

 A fire in 1890 destroyed most of the pasture and fences on the ranch; the 

 newspaper called 10-year-old Lottie Randall "the little heroine" of the disaster. 64 



Mrs. Randall apparently returned to the ranch and lived alone there in 

 later years but was eventually persuaded by her children to leave and live with 

 them in town. Sarah Seaver Randall died on January 24, 1907, and left the 

 ranch to her grown children Elizabeth Tripp, William, Fanny Tullar, Raymond 

 and Mary Clifford. Upon his death William left his 1/5 share to his three 

 children in 1909, and Fanny left her portion to her two daughters Diadama and 

 Mary after her death in 1911. The family had spread far and wide and decided 

 after Fannie 's death to sell the home ranch. 65 



At the end of 1911 the Randall heirs sold the ranch to Millerton 

 (Tomales Bay) dairyman George Woodley. The ranch was rented to tenants 

 during this period, including the Silveira family and Frank Fostine, both of 

 whom ran the dairy. For a short time in the early 1930s, tenants ran sheep on 

 the ranch. Woodley 's daughter Nellie Deevy had inherited the ranch in 1924, 

 and she and her husband Dan had a Grade A barn built behind the house 

 around 1934, one of the first in the Olema Valley. The family moved to the 

 ranch at that time and operated under contract to Marin Dell Milk Company. 

 The Deevys also built a large hay barn with horse and calf sheds along the side, 

 behind the Grade A barn. Deevy 's heirs sold the ranch in 1942 to Umbert "AT 

 Borello and his partners, Angelo Devencenzi and Donald L. Cooper, who 

 continued a Grade A operation; Borello bought out his partners a year later. It 

 was some time after this that the Randall-era barns across the road were 

 destroyed. 66 



Ernest Kettenhofen, a former ship's captain (and later a Marin County 

 supervisor), bought the Randall Ranch from Borello in 1951. Kettenhofen ran 

 cattle and sheep on the ranch and built two stock ponds in southern drainages. 



64 Delgado, p. 4; Marin Journal. April 10, 1884, November 20 and December 11, 1890. 

 65 Deeds Book 114, p. 338, Book 120, p. 320, Book 133, p. 417, MCRO. 



66 Deeds Book 139, pp. 418 and 420, Book 140 pp. 149 and 150, Official Records Book 50, p. 86, 

 Book 343, p. 175, Book 450, p. 410, Book 723, p. 227, MCRO; Population Schedules, 14th U. S. 

 Census, 1920; interviews with Dan Deevy and Joseph Silveira. 



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