Hertford County, NC - Solon Borland's Children 

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                 "Solon Borland & FAMILY"
               Chapter 3: "Solon's Children"
                      THOMAS BORLAND
                        (11/09/08), (01-15-13)
 
Solon BORLAND (1811VA-1864TX) may have had seven children?
 
Thomas & Harold ("Little Solon") with first wife Huldah, possibly (?)
 one with second wife Elizabeth, rumored to have had one (?) by creole
 lady friend, George Godwin, Fanny Green & Mary Melbourne with third and
 last wife Mary.
 
We find documentation that the five known children, Thomas, Harold
 ("Little Solon"), George Godwin, Fanny ("Fannie") Green, twice married
 Mary ("Mollie") Melbourne plus Solon's two granddaughters Grace
 ("Darce") Melbourne and twice married Mary Borland BEATTIE, lived lives
 any parent should be most proud about. We were unable to trace his four
 grandsons, Russell & Charles BORLAND (Veterans of World War I), Godwin
 Borland MOORES, or George Melbourne BEATTIE (with Oliver Typrwriter Co
 in NY, 1903), --- hopefully they too lead good lives.
 
Material used herein from The College of William & Mary archives is
 noted with (WM).
 

3C. GEORGE GODWIN BORLAND (1846AR-1862TX):
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His <a href="http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=califia1&id=I5757">ancestry</a>.
 

<b>GEORGE GODWIN BORLAND</b> was born in Little Rock Wednesday, 11
 March 1846 prior to the Mexican-American War, while his father was
 Adjutant General of Arkansas. He was first known child of Solon
 BORLAND's (1811VA-1864TX) third marriage with Mary Isabel MELBOURNE
 (1824LA-1862AR), named for Solon's uncle, George GODWIN
 (1787VA-1866VA), of Nansemond county, Virginia who with wife Fanny
 GREEN, born 1785, raised and educated Solon for a period of time
 around 1820 (see 1820 census & 1821 school receipt) and George's
 half-brother Thomas (1833NC-1859AR) from 1837 to 1849.
 
George, single, died 24 June 1862 in Clarksville, Red River county,
 Texas. Burial location is documented as Mount Holly cemetery, Little
 Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas, wthout marker, where since May Day
 1992 is memoral cenotaph placed to honor his father (with incorrect
 birth date) by the Arkansas Bar Foundation and Pulaski Bar
 Association.
 
George was in the 1850 Hot Springs and 1860 Princeton Federal census
 with mother and sister Fanny. He's thought to have attended Saint
 Johns' College's preparatory school under Colonel John Baker THOMPSON
 along with ENGLISH, Peyton Danley (1846AL-1921AR), HEMPSTEAD, Fay
 (1847AR-1934AR), then, at age 15, served as private in Woodruff's
 Artillery, 23 April 1861, under his father, when Solon raided
 href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=788>Fort
 Smith as aide-de-camp to Governor Henry M RECTOR.
 
At age 16, with mother's reluctant consent, served Confederate States
 Army in Indian Country under General Albert PIKE, so says obituary,
 but due to poor health, was discharged, dying Tuesday, 24 June 1862 in
 Clarksville at a friend's home while on his way to Little Rock, so
 written in his obituary,
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/obits/borlandgg.txt
 
<b>NOTE:</b>
 <i>A newspaper article was received 04/18/2012 from Little Rock,
 Arkansas concerning results of volunteer Kay TATUM's recent research.
 She discovered that Colonel Solon BORLAND's third son, Private George
 Godwin BORLAND (1846AR-1862TX) (namesake, father's uncle), a Civil War
 veteran, is buried in Mount Holly without a marker.
 
The Gen T J CHURCHILL (he served as prisoner with Solon BORLAND during
 Mexican War) chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy (whose 1919
 Historical Arkansas publication, page #20 has poetic sister's poem,
 David O Dodd, encouraged to be written by General Albert PIKE (page
 #6) in 1869)
 
It is their intention to honor this young veteran with their marker on
 150th anniversary of his death, June 24. True, he was buried with
 mother and oldest half-brother, with other half brother, Major Harold
 BORLAND buried at Little Rock National Cemetery, having a government
 marker with incorrect rank. All three at Mount Holly cemetery are
 within BORLAND plot, without markers,~ ~ where on Law Day 1992 the
 Arkansas Bar Foundation and Pulaski County Bar Association installed a
 Cenotaph honoring George's father, providing incorrect birth date.
 
http://files.usgwarchives..net/nc/hertford/bios/borland17.txt
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