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COL John Pelham Border

19 Feb 1819 – 12 Jun 1873

Birth19 Feb 1819
Death12 Jun 1873
CemeteryRose Hill Cemetery
New Iberia , Iberia Parish , Louisiana , USA
Added byphil r johnson on 03 Sep 2012
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64473385

Bio

John Pelham Border was a Military Man, and a public official. He and his parents migrated to the United States in 1823 and lived for a time in New York. The family moved to Texas in 1835 and John took up surveying like many of the first men in Texas seemed to do. John joined the Texas army from October to December 1835, and participated in the successful Goliad Campaign of 1835. Then on April 1, 1836, he signed up again, only this time with Capt. William Kimbro's company and fought bravely at the Battle of San Jacinto . Later John moved to San Augustine County, and while there he was a merchant, was elected to be the county clerk, and later was appointed Postmaster, in 1842. Apparently his sense of civic duty still wained, and in 1847, he was made a Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia. He married Catherine Elizabeth Harding on March 5, 1844, and they had six children. At the beginning of the War between the States, Lt Colonel Border raised seven companies in San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Sabine, and Shelby counties. They were formed together as Border's Battalion, and he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the unit. In May 1864 Border assumed command of Camp Ford, the stockade for federal prisoners. After the war he and his family settled in New Iberia, Louisiana, where he died on June 12, 1873, and was buried in the Protestant (Rose Hill) Cemetery. Johns wife later married Oran Milo Roberts, governor of Texas from 1879 to 1883. When she passed away, she was laid to rest in the Texas State Cemetery, in Austin, Texas.

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