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Information sent to T.Mason on 20 Sep 2006 by Alfred Borden. "My grandfather was Alfred Rutledge Borden. I know that the home of his birth, Borden Oaks, is currently historically certified. I saw it once during a cross-country, college-age trip in 1976. At that time, I would have certified it a wreck so I suppose the remaining Bordens have done a lot of work since then. My grandfather told us that it had been a slave-holding plantation. He described a lot of the hold-over customs, including being raised by a "mammy" and attending the black church that his father had built on the farm for the share-croppers. He told about two brothers, James Pennington and Parham, who where both dead when I was still a child. I do not know when or why they died. He told me that his mother Melissa Parham, was Cajin French from New Orleans. She was roman catholic, so he and his brothers were raised catholic (we were too). She died while he was a child and his father James married a woman from Alabama named Annie Gray Jack. They had two children, James Jack and Mary Esther.
My grandfather said that he ran away to sea when he was in his teens. He told many stories about his exploits, including landing in Mexico with a marine brigade under Black Jack Pershing to confront Pancho Villas, being a machinists mate on Teddy Roosevelts yacht, being chief machinists mate on a WWI troop ship called Leviathon, and spending time as a rodeo cowboy after leaving the service. He had a scar on his belly from a gunshot that he got during a bar brawl. I was told that the bullet was still in there (it was an early steel-jacketed type so he never got lead poisoning)."