Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....T. R. Parish March 4 1847 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  T. R. PARISH.-The subject of this sketch is one of the leading and influential
business men of Barbour county. He was born March 4, 1847, in Pike county, Ala.,
and is the son of J. E. and Rebecca (Sellers) Parish, parents, natives
respectively of South and North Carolina. Mr. Parish was reared to manhood on a
farm, and in 1863, enlisted in company G, Sixty-first Alabama volunteer
infantry, with which he served as sergeant until the surrender of the southern
forces in 1865. He took part in the battles of the Wilderness, and a few days
after that engagement was captured at Spottsylvania Court House and sent to
Elmira, N. Y., where he was kept in confinement until the close of the war. Upon
his return home, Mr. Parish worked for some time on the home farm, but
agriculture not being to his taste, he subsequently embarked in the mercantile
business at Clayton, where he has since carried on a large and lucrative trade,
being at this time the leading merchant in the city. He sold goods by himself
for two years and then became associated in the business with Mr. Lilienstern,
under the firm name of Parish & Lilienstern, a partner-ship which lasted about
six years, when Mr. Parish purchased the entire, stock and took in his brother,
J. E. Parish, with whom he is still connected. The firm of Parish and brother
carry a general stock, the average value of which is about $12,000, and the
sales are quite large, aggregating about $10,000 a year. In addition to the
mercantile business, the Parish brothers are largely interested in various other
enterprises, notably among which are the South Alabama Oil & Fertilizing
company, at Ozark, the East Alabama Fertilizing company, at Clayton, the Clayton
Banking company and the Enterprise Hotel of Clayton. T. R. Parish is a director
of the bank and president of the East Alabama Firtilizing company, and also
belongs to the city council, in which body he has been quite active in promoting
much needed city legislation. Since taking up his residence in Clayton Mr.
Parish has in every way justified the record he has made. He possesses business
ability of a high order, and his intelligence, activity and untiring devotion to
the best interests of his business and to the general welfare of the city make
him a power in the community, while his social nature and winning manners render
him popular with all classes. His affiliations with the democratic party makes
him prominent in local politics of the city and county, and the Methodist church
has in him an earnest and devoted member. He is also identified with the Masonic
fraternity and takes an active interest in the deliberations of the local lodge
to which he belongs. He and Margie, daughter of M. R. Hill, were united in
marriage on the 16th day of March, 1871, and they have become the parents of
four children: Ida May, wife of A. B. Carlisle; Ella Hill, Joseph Richard, and
T. R. Parish. J. E. Parish, father of the subject of this sketch, was a native
of Kershaw district, S. C., born in the year 1822. He is of Irish extraction,
but having been early left an orphan has little definite recollection of his
father's people, who appear to have been old residents of the Carolinas. When a
young man he moved to Pike county, Ala., where in 1842 he married Rebecca
Sellers, daughter of Matthew Sellers. a native of North Carolina, who moved with
his family to the county of Pike, early in the thirties and settled near the
village of Troy. J. E. and Rebecca Parish are now living in the town of Clayton;
they are the parents of eight children, namely : Calista A., wife of Joseph
Graves ; Elizabeth, wife of J. R. Simonton: M. H., J. E., Jr., Ida and Katy,
wife of John T. Britt.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 451-452


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