This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UNB.2ACI/864.2.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am a distant relative of Nathaniel and John Borders. The John Borders I knew was the engineer on the Frisco Railroad. He drove what we called the local train. The local would go from town to town picking up the empty boxcars. When the train would stop near our house we would talk or wave to John Borders.To say Nathaniel Borders was a colorful character is probably an understatement of the facts. My Dad , who seemed to know Nathaniel quite well, said that he lost his arm fishing. He held a shot of dynamite a little longer then the alloted time of the fuse.