Advertisement

Advertisement

Thomas Borland

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
9 Jan 1859 (aged 25–26)
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
South Maple, 63-389-X
Memorial ID
View Source
His poetic half-sister Fanny's oft-read poems. My Father's Feet, was dedicated to and descriptive of their father, who was statesman, soldier and diplomat, according to the written words of Fay HEMPSTEAD and was saved by Mrs Frances Marion (Harrow) HANGER (in whose Little Rock restored home lives Kay TATUM), so its now published, by Fred Allsopp in 1933.

Buried without a maker, as were eight of nine members of Solon Borland's family, he within >Mount Holly, same cemetery, as his half-brother George's plot North Juniper 31-606-A, ~ ~ where on Law Day, 1992, was established a "Memorial Cenotaph" by Arkansas Bar Foundation and Pulaski Bar Association jointly, dedicated to their most worthy father, Solon BORLAND (with incorrect birth date), whose burial site is unknown, thought to be in Houston City cemetery, Houston, Harris county, Texas, the county in which he expired 1 JAN 1864.

Following the 1837 Memphis death of his mother he was breifly raised by his uncle Euclid BORLAND in Mississippi shortly to be returned to where he was while father was obtaining his first of two medical degrees, with those that raised his father, great uncle George GODWIN and Fanny GREEN in Suffolk, Virginia with Betsy as a "nanny", his younger brother Harold, aka, "Little Solon" raised with uncle Euclid and wife.

Thomas is found attending the Suffolk Academy, the Alexandria Boarding school and in 1850, the Western Military Institute in Kentucky. He died at the Anthony House in Little Rock, father then living in Princeton. Dallas county, Arkansas, buried Mount Holly cemetery in plot purchased two days following his early death, without a headstone, plot South Maple 63-389-X, with, 133 years later, Law Day 1992, a Memorial Cenotaph stone was set (with incorrect birth date) honoring his most distinguished pioneering father, Solon BORLAND, at plot No. Juniper 31-606-A where on June 24, 2012 a Southern Cross marker will be placed for both, his father and his half-brother, George Godwin Borland, the 150th anniversary of his death after serving in Texas under Gen Albert Pike by the Gen T J Churchill chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy.

Father: Solon BORLAND b: 8 AUG 1811 in Suffolk, Nasemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Huldah G (Godwin?) Wright b: 1809 in Virginia.
His poetic half-sister Fanny's oft-read poems. My Father's Feet, was dedicated to and descriptive of their father, who was statesman, soldier and diplomat, according to the written words of Fay HEMPSTEAD and was saved by Mrs Frances Marion (Harrow) HANGER (in whose Little Rock restored home lives Kay TATUM), so its now published, by Fred Allsopp in 1933.

Buried without a maker, as were eight of nine members of Solon Borland's family, he within >Mount Holly, same cemetery, as his half-brother George's plot North Juniper 31-606-A, ~ ~ where on Law Day, 1992, was established a "Memorial Cenotaph" by Arkansas Bar Foundation and Pulaski Bar Association jointly, dedicated to their most worthy father, Solon BORLAND (with incorrect birth date), whose burial site is unknown, thought to be in Houston City cemetery, Houston, Harris county, Texas, the county in which he expired 1 JAN 1864.

Following the 1837 Memphis death of his mother he was breifly raised by his uncle Euclid BORLAND in Mississippi shortly to be returned to where he was while father was obtaining his first of two medical degrees, with those that raised his father, great uncle George GODWIN and Fanny GREEN in Suffolk, Virginia with Betsy as a "nanny", his younger brother Harold, aka, "Little Solon" raised with uncle Euclid and wife.

Thomas is found attending the Suffolk Academy, the Alexandria Boarding school and in 1850, the Western Military Institute in Kentucky. He died at the Anthony House in Little Rock, father then living in Princeton. Dallas county, Arkansas, buried Mount Holly cemetery in plot purchased two days following his early death, without a headstone, plot South Maple 63-389-X, with, 133 years later, Law Day 1992, a Memorial Cenotaph stone was set (with incorrect birth date) honoring his most distinguished pioneering father, Solon BORLAND, at plot No. Juniper 31-606-A where on June 24, 2012 a Southern Cross marker will be placed for both, his father and his half-brother, George Godwin Borland, the 150th anniversary of his death after serving in Texas under Gen Albert Pike by the Gen T J Churchill chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy.

Father: Solon BORLAND b: 8 AUG 1811 in Suffolk, Nasemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Huldah G (Godwin?) Wright b: 1809 in Virginia.


Advertisement

  • Maintained by: Arkieologist
  • Originally Created by: Bill
  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44166154/thomas-borland: accessed ), memorial page for Thomas Borland (1833–9 Jan 1859), Find a Grave Memorial ID 44166154, citing Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Arkieologist (contributor 47246586).