JAMES A. BORDERS

JAMES A. BORDERS, the sixth son of the issue of Major Hugh Borders and wife, was born September 27, 1840. He was never married. He was studying medicine at the time the Civil War opened and is said to have done some practice. He entered the Civil War as a volunteer at the opening of the war but came home suffering from a complication of diseases and died December 14, 1861.

We quote from his tombstone as follows: sergeant James Borders, Company K, Fourth North Carolina Regiment, who departed this world December 14, 1861, in the 22nd year of his age. He was among the first to respond to his country's call and tho he did not fall on the Battle Field, spent his life in her defense.

He is buried at Antioch Church, where so many of his relatives now sleep.

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