Father: Ernest Baron Pratt
Mother: Annie Elizabeth Wales
Spouse1: William H Randall m. 22 Nov 1905
Dau: Margaret Peregrine "Bahiyyih" (Randall) Winckler b. 3 Aug 1907 Medford
Son: William Henry "Baha’i" Randall b. 26 Mar 1916 Boston
Spouse2: Howard "Bishop" Brown m. bef 1930

Note: Harry was referring to his male child as "Baha’i", I'm not so sure he followed through with this behavior. His dau later on referred to herself as "Bahiyyih Randall Winckler"; she was last recorded in 1968 when she was appointed to the first Continental Board of Counsellors, on which she served for seventeen years. She was living at Sabie, South Africa.∼RUTH RANDALL BROWN

1887—1969 Ruth Randall Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 5, 1887, and died in Durban, South Africa, on November 3, 1969.
Following her education and marriage, when a very young woman, to William Henry ("Harry") Randall', a Boston businessman, two events had an extraordinary influence upon the remainder of her life—a sudden illness which seemed fatal, and the mysterious response to a meeting with 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
At the time of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to Boston in 1912, Ruth was lying ill with what was considered an incurable illness. She has often related that her husband, who was a deeply religious man in search of spiritual knowledge and understanding, was moved to appeal to 'Abdu'l-Bahá to meet his wife and heal her. During the brief interview in which 'Abdu'l-Bahá leaned over her couch on the open verandah of her home in Medford, Massachusetts, Ruth, in recalling the important moment has said: " 'Abdu'l-Bahá took my hand, looked with His beautiful, searching eyes into mine, and I knew in that instant my life was an open book. 'You are not sick,' He said, 'you are the healthiest person here,' and repeated the words three times." From that moment healing began and an inscrutable recovery, which baffled her doctors, took place.
This event set a new direction to the lives of Ruth and Harry Randall. Through study and prayer they became followers of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's teaching that Bahá'u'lláh, His Father, was the Manifestation of God for the new spiritual era which He inaugurated.
In the ensuing years both Ruth and her husband gave time and money to creating new Bahá'í centres, to many meetings and conferences, to the development of the Green Acre property at Eliot, Maine, as a Bahá'í Summer School, and wholeheartedly supported many activities for the introduction and advancement of the Bahá'í Faith.
In response to an invitation from 'Abdu'l-Bahá, at the close of World War I, the Randalls, their daughter, Margaret, and a few friends, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in November, 1919. The significance of those wonderful days was recorded in pilgrim's notes which were published upon their return under the title The Light of the World. Borrowing from its pages a glimpse of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, He "sat there before us, at times silent, but when He spoke every word vibrated with power. As He talked of world conditions, His irresistible logic, the splendour of His universal mind, were a continual astonishment. As He paused, told a humorous story, laughed about Fugita, heaped more food on Margaret Randall's plate, His great love set all our hearts in uproar. It is not the Master's human personality, attractive as it may be, but the light, the truth of God shining through His selfless spirit that makes Him so wonderful and His words like the Water of Life".
The architect of the Western Pilgrim House on Mount Carmel has recorded one result of the pilgrimage of the Randalls: "Before I left America for Europe and the Holy Land in July, 1920, Mr. Randall spoke with me of the plan for building a Pilgrim House at the foot of Mount Carmel, which he had talked over with the Master, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, on his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land . . . In the early days of my visit with our Master last winter, He broached the subject of the Pilgrim House which Mr. Randall was to build, asking me to prepare designs for a building suitable for the purpose, to be built upon the site chosen. The preliminary drawings for this design were made under the Master's direction. Sketches for several possible solutions were presented to Him, and He chose one as being the best suited to the conditions, suggesting some changes in its arrangement . . . Then the Master told me to send the drawings to Mr. Randall, which instruction I carried out. The Pilgrim House is to be built on the opposite side of the street from the house of the Master. Shoghi Effendi, in God Passes By, has written: "The site for a Western Pilgrim House was acquired in the neighbourhood of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's residence, and the building was erected soon after His passing by American believers".
Ruth returned to Haifa in 1921 just after the passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and had the privilege of sharing the grief of the Holy Family and of comforting Shoghi Effendi upon whom had suddenly fallen the responsibility of Guardianship of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.
After the death of her husband in 1929, Ruth married Mr. Bishop Brown, a Bahá'í who had been appointed to a professorship at the University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. ln the years 1929 to 1953, Ruth and Bishop Brown actively served the Faith at the University, at home, in local centres, summer schools and on national committees. While attending professional meetings abroad, following World War l, Ruth and her husband visited Bahá'í centres in Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, France and England. In 1953 they arose to participate in the Guardian's Ten Year Crusade. In response to his suggestion they became pioneers in South Africa, and made their home in Durban. A letter dated September 5, 1953, written by the Guardian's secretary on his behalf, bears a postscript in Shoghi Effendi's handwriting: "May the Almighty abundantly reward you for your prompt, exemplary and spontaneous response, bless richly your high endeavours, guide and sustain you always, remove all obstacles from your path, and enable you to win brilliant victories in the service of His glorious Faith."
At her death in 1969, Ruth Randall Brown was survived by her husband, Bishop Brown, and two children by her first marriage, Mrs. Margaret ("Bahíyyih") Randall Ford and Mr. William ("Bahá'í") Randall, both of whom live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
After gaining her health and becoming a Bahá'í, Ruth devoted her many and varied talents to the service of the Faith. She was a musician with an exquisite singing voice; she wrote and lectured; and she was always a practical housewife, creating with her family homes that welcomed countless people through the years. Her beauty of spirit will linger in the hearts of many for years to come.

The Universal House of Justice cabled:
GRIEVED LEARN PASSING RUTH RANDALL BROWN STOP HER LONG LIFE DEVOTED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CAUSE BAHAULLAH SHINING EXAMPLE ALL PIONEERS STOP PLEASE ARRANGE BEFITTING MEMORIAL HER BEHALF STOP CONVEY HER FAMILY OUR LOVING SYMPATHY ASSURANCE ARDENT PRAYERS DIVINE THRESHOLD PROGRESS HER SOUL.
BISHOP BROWN and MARGARET BAHIYYIH RANDALL FORD
Bahá'í World/Volume 15/In Memoriam