Hertford County, NC - Solon Borland's Children 

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                "Solon Borland & FAMILY 
             Chapter 3: "Solon's Children" 
                George Godwin BORLAND 
                     (10/29/08)
 
Solon BORLAND (1811VA-1864TX) reportedly 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 found documentation that the five known children, Thomas, Harold 
("Little Solon"), George Godwin, Fanny Green, Mary Melbourne plus 
Solon's two granddaughters Grace Melbourne and Mary Borland BEATTIE, 
lived lives any parent should be most proud about. We were unable to 
trace his son Thomas for three years until 2006 with letters from The 
College of William & Mary archives. Nothing found on Solon's four 
grandsons, Russell & Charles BORLAND, Godwin Borland MOORES, or George 
Melbourne BEATTIE (noted in letter of step-father, Colonel O C GRAY, in 
New York working for Oliver typewriter company), --- hopefully they too 
lead good lives. 

3C. GEORGE GODWIN BORLAND (1846AR-1862TX): 
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GEORGE GODWIN BORLAND 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's 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 1845. 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, without marker where since May Day 1992 is his 
father's memoral stone honoring his father, placed by the Arkansas Bar 
Foundation. 

  George was in the 1850 Hot Springs and 1860 Princeton census with 
mother and sister Fanny. He attended St 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, April 1861, under his 
father, when Solon raided Ft Smith. At age 16, with mother's reluctant 
consent, served Confederate States Army in Indian Country under General 
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.org/ar/pulaski/obits/borlandgg.txt  

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