Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Daniel McLeod January 2 1824 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DANIEL McLEOD. - Among the older citizens of Barbour county is Daniel McLeod,
who, for nearly a half century, has been one of the well known substantial
planters of the county. His father, Daniel McLeod, was born on the Isle of Skye,
north of Scotland, about the year 1783, and was the son of Alexander McLeod, who
emigrated to the United  
States at the beginning of the present century and settled in North Carolina.
Daniel McLeod was married in Robeson county, N. C., to Catherine Douglass and
shortly thereafter removed to Kershaw district, S. C., thence in 1835 to
Alabama, locating in Barbour county, within a short distance of where his son
Daniel now lives. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod were the parents of six children, and died
in the years 1856 and 1853, respectively. Of their children, four are living at
this time, namely: Nancy L., wife of Andrew Lee; Daniel, William and Archie P.
McLeod. The subject of this sketch was born in Kershaw district, S. C., January
2, 1824, and consequently is in his sixty-ninth year. He was brought to Alabama
by his parents in 1833, and has spent the time from that date to the present in
Barbour county, of which he is now one of the oldest and best known citizens. He
began life with a limited capital and like many others who have impressed their
characters upon the community, the moral and mental fiber of his nature was
early hardened and invigorated by contact with the rugged labor of the farm. He
has always followed agriculture as an occupation, and while not so successful as
some in the accumulation of wealth is, nevertheless, in comfortable
circumstances, owning a fine farm of 1,104 acres, upon which his declining years
are being passed in the enjoyments of those comforts which a long and busy life
has taught him how to appreciate. During the late war, Mr. McLeod rendered
valuable service to the south by manufacturing salt for the government, but he
did not perform any active duty as a soldier. On the 31st of October, 1848, in
Barbour county, Mr. McLeod and Parmelia McGill were united in wedlock. Mrs.
McLeod was born in Abbeville district, S. C., in 1832, and came to Alabama in
1846. The following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. McLeod:
John, Isabella, wife of George M. Howell; D.D., attorney-at-law, Anniston, Ala.
; Ella V., Rev. C. B., Presbyterian minister, located at Faundsdale, this state;
Archie N., student at Abbeville, Ala. ; Edward L., and Robert E. Lee, the last
two and Ella V., living with their parents. Mr. McLeod has spared no pains or
expense in the education of his children, and they have grown up to be an honor
to the name they bear. He is an earnest and conscientious member of the
Presbyterian church, and for a number of years has been a ruling elder in his
congregation.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 443-444


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