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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    PARKER N. G. RAND was born at La Grange, Colbert County, Ala., in October,
1829, and is a son of John and Martha (Curtis) Rand, natives of Wake County, N. C.

    Mr. Rand's parents moved to La Grange in 1826; purchased two farms, one in
Lawrence and the other in Franklin County, and were successful in accumulating a
large amount of land. They reared four sons and five daughters, namely: Louise,
wife of William Mullens of Alabama; Pemantha, widow of Robert A. Lampkin;
Martha, wife of Reece Cook, of Vicksburg, Miss.; Jackson. C., deceased; John W.,
physician; William H., farmer; Molsey A., wife of F. C. Vinson; Parker N. G.,
our subject; Mary A., wife of Dr. William Stephenson—she died in Texas. The
elder Mr. Rand died in 1863, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife died in
1845, aged fifty-six years. He was a very active and industrious man while in
North Carolina. Beginning in life apparently a poor man he succeeded in
accumulating a fortune of at least $50,000. The Rand family were originally of
Irish and Scotch ancestry. The mother of our subject was a daughter of John
Curtis, a native of Wake county, N. C. He was a lineal descendant of Irish
parentage.

    The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm; received a common-school
education, and in 1845 entered La Grange College, from which institution he was
graduated as A. B. in 1849. After his graduation he was engaged with his father
farming until February, 1855, when he was married to Martha A. Smith, daughter
of John Smith, of Lawrence County, Ala. They reared a family of six children,
namely: Pattie; Parker, book-keeper for F. R. King & Co.; Leighton, Hall, John
and Mary.

    After marriage Mr. Rand located in the neighborhood of his birth where he
was engaged at farming. He was elected magistrate, which office he has held for
thirty years or more. In the spring of 1863, he raised a company of soldiers;
was elected captain, and entered a battalion under Major Williams of the
Confederate Army. This company remained a part of the battalion until its major
was killed, after which it was merged into Company H, Eleventh Alabama,
commanded by Col. James Burtwell, a graduate of West Point. Mr. Rand remained
with this regiment until the close of the war. He was mostly engaged as a scout
and participated at the battle of Tishomingo Creek and at the fall of Selma. He
surrendered at Pond Springs, after which he returned home and resumed farming.
Having lost considerable of his fortune, he went to work with energy and has
succeeded in replenishing his coffers.

    Mr. Rand and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he
has been steward for many years. He is also worshipful master of the Masonic
lodge, and has taken an active interest in all that pertains to the advancement
and progress of his section of the country.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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