Geneva County AlArchives Biographies.....Borland, Erasmus J. November 15 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    ERASMUS J. BORLAND, judge of probate of Geneva county, Ala., is a native of
Randolph county, Ga., and was born November 15, 1837, a son of Quintilian and
Rachel (Stephenson) Borland. Quintilian was also a native of Randolph county,
born in 1814, was reared a planter, and in 1856 came to Alabama, and bought and
settled on 400 acres of fine land, eight miles below Newton, in Dale county. In
1861 he entered the Confederate army and fought gallantly until near the close
of the war, when he was overcome by an attack of sickness, which ended in his
death. Mrs. Rachel Borland was born in Abbeville district, S. C., in 1825, was
taken to Georgia by her parents when young, was married in her fourteenth year,
and became the mother of fourteen children, of whom eight now reside in Arkansas
and Louisiana, and three in Alabama-the other three, having died young. Mrs.
Borland became converted to the Baptist faith in her adolescence and remained a
consistent member of that church until her death, in 1875. Erasmus J. Borland
was reared on the home plantation and acquired a thorough knowledge of
agriculture. In 1861 he enlisted at the cross roads near his father's homestead,
in a company of infantry being then raised by Asch Griffin. This company was
sent to Savannah, was there disbanded, and shortly afterward Mr. Boland enlisted
in company C, Thirty-first Georgia infantry, which was assigned to Gordon's
brigade, Jackson's corps, Ewell's division, under Gen. Lee. He took part in some
of the most severely contested battles of the war, principally in. Virginia,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and May 12, 1864, was captured at Spottsylvania,
Va., and sent to Fort Delaware, where he was detained until March, 1865, when he
was discharged on his parole. He returned to his home and resumed farming, which
he followed three years, and then came to Alabama and for seven years taught
school in Dale and Geneva counties, making his final settlement in the latter
county in 1880, and here he still resides, one of the most highly respected
citizens of the city of Geneva. Mr. Borland was united in wedlock December 13,
1867, to Miss Mary S. Rigell, daughter of Judge Rigell. She was born in Russell
county, Ala., but removed with her parents to Dale county, where she was married
at the age of sixteen years. She became the mother of six children, and died
March 13, 1881. All her children survive, and are named as follows: James R., a
resident of Texas; Mary L., wife of Thomas Britt, of Eufaula, Ala.; Georgia L.,
at home; Columbus Q., William T., and Cora C. May 3, 1882, Mr. Borland took for
his second wife, Mrs. Drusilla Renfro, widow of Elisha Renfro (who died in 1863,
while in the Confederate service), and daughter of J. Wallace. Mrs. Borland was
born in Georgia, but reared in Florida. She bore her first husband two children,
Robert A. Renfro, of Campbellton, Fla., and Elisha A., a farmer of Geneva
county, Ala. No children, however, have been born to her union with Mr. Borland.
Before his election, in 1880, to the position of probate judge, Mr. Borland had
served a number of years as justice of the peace, to the entire satisfaction of
the community. In 1882 he was made a Mason, and is now a member of Geneva lodge,
No. 129. He is a liberal supporter of the schools and churches, and Mrs. Boland
is a respected member of the Missionary Baptist congregation.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1033-1034
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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