Robert T Rand

(THIS ROBERT'S PARENTS AND SIBLINGS: SEE #4 FOR THIS ROBERT)

(VI) Robert Rand, believed to be son of Robert Rand (5), and doubtless a descendant of the generations given above, was born about 1750. He settled in Westminster, Vermont, with his wife Emma. Children, all born in Westminster:

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4. Robert, born July 26, 1783.

Source: Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, p. 641.

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iii. Robert" Rand, Jr., b. July 6, 1783.

Source: page 304 The Averell-Averill-Avery family: A record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass. ... (Google eBook) Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906 http://books.google.com/books?id=ODkxAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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Robert served briefly in the War of 1812. He was a private on the muster roll of Captain Lev i Roger's Company of Infantry, 2nd Regiment, Vermont Detached Militia from September 19, 181 2 to March 14, 1813. The pay was $6.66 per month. Records show that he travelled sixty-five miles. His total amount of military services was pat at two months and twenty days.

Robert and Mehitable started west sometime before 1820 with her parents. They intended to g o to Kentucky, but they got sick and remained in Brook Co., West Virginia for 8 years. They purchased some land on February 8, 1833 from Oliver Brown, Jr and his wife Ann for $400. The property was located in Holidays Cove, near Harmon Creek, 1 1/2 miles northeast of Edington, West Virginia.

The family later moved to Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio

In 1840, the family purchased 200 acres in Jackson County, West Virginia from Benjamin and Rachel Mairs..

Then to Cottageville, Jackson, Co, West Virginia, where they lived 20 years until Roberts death. They had 10 children, 9 lived to mature age.

Robert Rand died of cancer at the age of 65 in Jackson co., West Virginia.

Robert had a will which was dated February 22, 1844. His farm was not sold until June 1850.

Source: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

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From Sawmills to Sunfish A History of Onalaska, Wisconsin By John and Joan Dolbier, 1985

 Robert and Hettie A. Rand, natives of Vermont, started West in the early 1800's with the early pioneers. On the way, they became sick and were forced to stop at several locations, including Ohio where they lived for a time. They returned to West Virginia where they remained for 20 years, and where Robert died at the age of 65. The couple had ten children.

 Hettie continued to move West with some of her children. She married five times and had children by three of these husbands. Her last husband was the grandfather of Hamlin Garland. In her later years, she lived on Brice Prairie with her daughter, Lucy Pittinger, and became well known in Onalaska.

 Hettie's ancestry is very interesting. Her father was Artemus Reed, one of the "Green Mountain boys." He fought in the Revolutionary War and was one of the men who disguised themselves as Indians and threw the British tea overboard in the Boston Harbor. Her uncle was Thomas Buchanan Reed, a well known author and poet. One of his works is "Sheridan's Twenty Miles Away."

 One of Robert and Hettie's children continued to move West in the pioneer spirit. He became known as "Buckskin Jack" and was apparently a very picturesque fellow. He was a large man, said to have been 7 feet tall, to wear size 14 shoes, and weigh 280 pounds. He hunted deer and tanned the hides for clothing and moccasins. He became a United States Scout in the Bad Lands of the Dakotas and later operated a hunting lodge in Colorado.

 Another son, James B. Rand, the seventh of the ten children, was also a very large man. He was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, in 1822. As a young man he started to work digging out grubs and making railroad ties. At the age of 16 he worked on flatboats on the Ohio River, loading them at Cincinnati for New Orleans. When he was in his mid-20's, he came to Wisconsin settling in Dane County where he farmed. He lost his right arm in a threshing accident while he was harvesting his third crop of grain.

 By the time he recovered from the accident, he had lost nearly everything and left the farm. He then began working with a logging crew on the Lemon Wire River. He became teamster for the logging headquarters coming into La Crosse during the winter of 1850-51, before there were any roads here.

 James settled in Onalaska, in 1852, and became one of the oldest settlers to remain in the city, and lived to be one of the oldest settlers in the county.

He engaged in various types of business: he kept a hotel, was in the cattle business for many years, was a land speculator, was Deputy Sheriff under the first Sheriff in the county, and served in the post for 25 years. In 1884, he went into the livery business with his son-in-law, A. N. Moore; and in 1889, acquired a meat market in the city.

 Mr. Rand had married Elizabeth Latimer in West Virginia in 1846. She was born in Pennsylvania and was of Scotch descent. She came to the Coulee Region in 1848.

 James and Elizabeth had six children. They were Isabell (Mrs. William Evans); George, who farmed near Holmen;  Artemas, who worked in logging;  Martha (Mrs. Charles Staples);  Anna (Mrs. A. N. Moore); and her twin brother, Willie, who died at age two. 

Mrs. Rand died in 1892. Later Mr. Rand married Mary Hartley. He died in 1898.

.... "I remember my Grandfather Rand as having a heroic countenance and a huge frame. He pioneered in Wisconsin and once exchanged forty acres in what became La Crosse for a yoke of oxen. He owned the livery stable and meat market at Onalaska, and one of his arms had been torn from its socket while he experimented with a threshing machine. I used to ride his knee while he tried to read his newspaper with a magnifying glass. He was gentle and kind and, with his gray locks and flowing beard, he looked like the pictures of the saints that embellished the pages of the family bible . . .

FOOTNOTES

 'Clayton Rand, Ink on My Hands. (The Dixie Press, Gulfport, Miss., 1940), pp. 1, 2, and 3.

 2Rand, Ink on My Hands, pp. 4-7.

SOURCES

 Rand, Clayton. Ink on My Hands. The Dixie Press, Gulfport, Miss., 1940.

Biographical History, Illustrated. La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

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Robert served briefly in the War of 1812. Robert and Mehitable started west sometime before 1820 with their five, possibly six, children and her parents. They intended to go to Kentucky, but they got sick and remained in Brook Co., West Virginia for 8 years. They had ten children altogether They purchased some land on February 8, 1833 from Oliver Brown, Jr and his wife Ann for $40. The property was located in Holidays Cove, near Harmon Creek, In 1840, the family purchased 200 acres in Jackson County, West Virginia from Benjamin and Rachel Mairs. They lived in Cottageville, Jackson Co, West Virginia until Roberts death. Robert had a will which was dated February 22, 1844, his farm was not sold until June 1850. Robert, son Rob and daughter Christina are buried near each other. Inscription: Robert Rand Sr. native of Vermont, died February 4, 1847 in the 61st year of his age. His languishing head is at rest. ?
Shall sigh with affliction no more.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via son William H Rand by SmartCopy: Jan 20 2015, 2:29:15 UTC