George W. Randall was born around 1818 in Pennsylvania. He married a woman named Rachael, and they had at least three children: Francis, born around 1846; Charles, born on February 15, 1850; and George, born around 1855. They lived in Covington, Pennsylvania, and Randall worked as a sawyer. By 1860, he owned $1,000 of personal property. He supported the Democratic Party, and he attended the party’s county convention in 1860. He died sometime after May 1864.