Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Rand, Parker N. G. October 18 1829 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   CAPT. PARKER N. G. RAND, one of the leading planters of Colbert county, Ala.,
residing three and a half miles southwest of Leighton, and nine and a half miles
southeast of Tuscumbia, was born at La Grange, Colbert county, October 18, 1829.
He is the son of John and Martha (Curtis) Rand, both natives of Wake county. N.
C. After marriage they came to Alabama in 1826, locating in Franklin, now
Colbert, county, where Mr. Rand purchased two plantations, followed planting
successfully and accumulated considerable property. His wife died December 25,
1845, and his death occurred in 1863. They were the parents of eleven children,
two of whom died in infancy, nine living to mature years. Two of the children
only are now living, viz.: Capt. Parker N. G. and William H., a citizen of
Texas. Capt. Rand was reared on his father's plantation and attended the common
schools in his youthful days. In 1845 he went to La Grange and entered the
college there, from which he graduated in 1849 with the degree of bachelor of
arts. After leaving college he followed planting until the breaking out of the
war, and in 1862 raised a company of which he was elected captain. With this
company he entered a battalion under Major Williams, which was subsequently
merged into the Eleventh Alabama cavalry under Col. Burtwell, a graduate of West
Point. He remained with the Eleventh until the close of the war, surrendering
his company at Wheeler's Station in April, 1865. After the war Capt. Rand
returned to the farm and has followed farming ever since. For more than forty
years he has been a magistrate in Colbert county. In 1892 he attempted to secure
the nomination for probate judge, but was defeated. He, however, did not sulk in
his tent, but when his party called on him to assist in the campaign he promptly
responded, rendering all the assistance which lay in his power, and the result
of all the efforts made was that Colbert county was carried for the democratic
party for the first time in many years. Capt. Rand is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and of the Knights of Honor. He was married February 8, 1855, to Miss
Martha Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Lawrence county, Ala., and to their
marriage there have been born eight children, seven of whom are living, viz.:
Dr. Edgar Rand, a physician, of Leighton; Henry A., a farmer; Martha B., wife of
Henry P. Kumps; Parker, Jr., merchant at Leighton; John B., connected with a
wholesale grocery house in Memphis; Hal, at home on the plantation, and Mary S.,
a recent graduate of the Huntsville Female college.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 698


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