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Borden County Courthouse (Gail) built 1939, photographed May 1998
Ted's Texas County Courthouse Photographs (page 5 )

"I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded."Gail Borden

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Greetings from Southern High Plains of West Texas.  We are Evelyn Crocker & Elaine Martin and we are the county coordinators for BORDEN County. Come back and visit often and watch these pages fill up with history and information. If you have any information, suggestions or comments please feel free to email us. We will be updating and adding information often. If you have any photos or information on landmarks, ancestors, or of the cemeteries here in BORDEN County please send them to us and we will be glad to place them online.

Borden County Event CALENDAR

Borden County Event Calendar is currently available for your use to notify our visitors of special events in the county-wide area; such as Reunions and Homecomings of Families, Schools, Churchs, and all Cemeteries. Club , Historical and Genealogy Society meetings, Cemetery Working (Work Days) and every day happenings may also be included.
Please, participate by clicking the hot link and follow instructions, it is really quite simply.




  • Index of Landmarks & Vanished Communities
  • Land Survey Abstract Indices of the Original Land Owners of Texas
  • BORDEN COUNTY ARCHIVES ON TXGenWeb
    • VITAL RECORDS:
    The vital records begin in 1906.

    BORDEN COUNTY BIRTHS


    BORDEN COUNTY DEATHS:


    BORDEN COUNTY MARRIAGES:


    BORDEN COUNTY DIVORCES

    		CEMETERY:
    This contains a list of the cemeteries including a map. If you have any photos or history you would like to add, please send it to us and we will gladly add it.
    ADDRESS BOOK:
    This contains a list of Local Resources that will be helpful in obtaining information from BORDEN County.    		 LINKS:
    Our ever Growing list of Links, contains a lot of links
    to local areas and surrounding West Texas.
    NEIGHBORS:
    Links to adjoining counties in Texas Southern High Plains.

    SURROUNDING COUNTIES     		PENSIONS:
    Contains a list of Confederate Pensions that were filed in BORDEN County.
    BIOGRAPHIES:
    Do you have biographies, photos, ect... for folks from Borden county? send them and I will be happy to place them online.
    		LOOK - UPS:
    Here you will find volunteers who you may email for information found in the Book ,
    "The First Hundred Years"   Feel free to contact them.
    Notice: The book "The First Hundred Years" has been recopied and is now for sale, see Look _ up Page for farther information.

    For the Forntier History of Borden County before organization in 1891 see the Recollections of Early Borden County on this site.
    BY MRS. CHARLES MILLER SYNDER
    A granddughter of Jim Doward, pioneer rancher 1876
    PUBLISHED IN THE PERMIAN HISTORICAL ANNUAL
    DEC. 1966

    If you would like to share your Borden county family or research information, we could sure could use more Look - up volunteers.

    EMAIL:
    E-mail us any information you would like placed on this county .
    Important Papers of Prominent Texians:
    W. C. & Frances Mayhugh Holden's Papers 1836-1989;
    The Holdens were prominent West Texas Educators and authors, their subjects were pioneer life , cattle industry, archeaology, indians, cowboys, local history, ect. Their papers are in the
    Texas Tech's Southwest Collections and Special Collection Library in Lubbock Texas. worth checking for other references.

    Hampton, Howard (John Howard), 1898-1967- An Inventory of His Papers, 1659-1957 and undated, at the SouthwestCollection/Special Collections Library.
    Hampton was a native born Texas Rancher, operating his own ranch at Clarksville then became director of ranch operations for the famous 6666
    ranch whose headquarters is presently in King co seat of Guthrie. He was in charge of their Slaton, Lubbock Co. Texas dividison then Tucumcari, New Mexico. From 1956-1958, he served as president of West Texas Museum Association. Hampton donated extensive Indian and western collections to area museums before his death in Tucumcari in 1967.
    A large part of the collection deals with letters and correspondence relating to Hampton's ancestors, some of which extending back to 1675. It also contains land deeds, inventories, newspaper articles, photographs, and family letters collected by Hampton's uncle, Dr. Joseph L. Miller of Thomas, West Virginia.

    QUERIES:
    You can view, post, or search queries with the TXGenWeb Query System that gives you the capability to search locally, nationally, or world wide for the surnames you are researching.

    Search: All Boards Borden Board Advanced Search FYI, This search engine box will not open in NS browers. click here to go to query board.

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    Use the following Boards:
    Borden Co. GenForum
    CousinConnect.com  (simply follow instructions)

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    Did this site assist you in your reseach? Was it easy to surf, was it pleasant to view? Then , please nominate it for the following award. Thank you and come again soon.
    The Mike Basham  Memorial TXGenWeb County of the Month Award TXGenWeb has initiated a program to recognize the efforts of county sponsors to provide outstanding resources and assistance to county visitors.
    If you would like nominate a county for this award - make your nomination here - County of the month form!



    Site last updated 6-25-2008


    Thanks to Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, Borden Co. first CC - 1999 -2001 for the many photos and research found on this site.