Hezekiah Borders, son of John and Catherine (Sellards) Borders and grandson of Hezekiah Sellards was born November 23, 1791 in Wythe County, Virginia near Walkers Station in the present Bland County, Virginia. About 1804, Hezekiah came to the present Johnson County, Kentucky with his parents.

In Floyd County, Kentucky on April 15, 1815 Hezekiah married Fanny Davis, daughter of Joseph Davis, Jr.

The following marriage bond is recorded in the Floyd County, Kentucky records.
Know all men by these presents that we Hezekiah borders and John Vanhoose are held and firmly bound unto the commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of 50 pounds for the sum payment whereof we bind ourselves our heirs firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated the 8th day of April 1815.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage shortly intended to be had and solemnized between the above bound Hezekiah Borders and Fanny Davis if therefore there be no lawful cause or impairment to obstruct or impead the said marriage then this obligation to be void else to remain in full force and virtue.
In the presence of
John Mayo DLC Clk /s/ Hezekiah Borders
/s/ John Vanhoose

Hezekiah and his family were quite active in the Methodist Church. On the wooded hillside, on the west side of River Road sits a small, white Methodist Church called Borders Chapel, which Hezekiah and his family started.

He married second in Floyd County, Kentucky, August 16, 1847 Jemima Ellen Auxier, born January 28, 1816, daughter of Daniel and Polly (Virgin) Auxier and granddaughter of Samuel and Sarah (Brown) Auxier.

Hezekiah operated a tavern and inn.

Hezekiah died in Lawrence County, Kentucky on October 15, 1857. Just a quarter a mile or so up river, on the east side of River Road on the banks of Levisa Fork, is a small cemetery, now near to 100 internments, called Borders Chapel Cemetery. Here he was the first to be laid to rest to establish this cemetery in which today all buried here are related to each other, by blood relation or marriage. The farm on which Borders Chapel Cemetery is located is now owned by Frank Preston of Allen, Kentucky. As one stands in this cemetery you have a feeling of quiet serenity. It is a well kept cemetery.

In the spring of 1871, Jemima, her two daughters and their families migrated to eastern Kansas. Parents of her son-in-laws were already located in Johnson County, Kansas near the town of Spring Hill. Sometime earlier, Hezekiah's son, Archibald, a cripple from infantile paralysis and a shoe cobbler by trade had established a shoe shop in Ochiltree, Kansas.

Based on a letter received from the family in Baldwin, Kansas, Reverend Zephaniah Meek wrote the following obituary which appeared in the February 28, 1902 issue of the Big Sandy News.

Death of Mrs. Jemima Borders
I am just in receipt of a letter advising me of the death of Mrs. Jemima E. Borders, widow of the late Hezekiah Borders at Baldwin, Kansas Feb 13th. She was the daughter of Daniel Auxier, was born Jan 28th, 1816, and was married to Hezekiah borders Aug 11, 1847, and moved to Kansas with her children in 1871. She was one the best known women of the Big Sandy Valley; a devout Christian, zealous in all good works, and a Methodist of the old, Sterling type. Intelligently she was far above the average, socially a most delightful companion, and entertained with a lavish hand. Zephaniah Meek.

Jemima is buried in Baldwin, Kansas. Jemima's grandson, Hezekiah Borders Hammond gives us the following description of her parents, a brother and of Jemima.

"Daniel Auxier and wife, Polly Vergin married about the year 1810, and they had fourteen children of whom our grandmother was among the oldest. Mortality in this family was very high, as I found a record of few adults. One son was Fletcher Auxier and there was a daughter, who married William Burchett, and another daughter, Eliza, who was the mother of Emma Straight, whose descendants live at Laverne, California. I remember very well that grandmother's brother, visited us once out on the old Kansas farm. He was six feet four inches tall and looked painfully erect and vigorous. He had a dark swarthy skin and was a dynamo of energy. Grandmother Jemima also had dark skin, as have many of the Auxiers, and she possessed untiring energy. By the way, there was a Jemima Auxier in another family, who was known as Red Jemima as she had re hair and grandmother was know as Black Jemima as her hair was black. Red Jemima was the daughter of Samuel Auxier the second. Uncle Fletcher's hair and beard were as black as the blackest coal.

As a widow, Grandmother Jemima spent a great part of her life in our home. She was a very dominant character and I remember so well how she directed us older children in what we should do. I remember well that she said frequently after she was past middle life that she had never felt tired. When i would say I was tired she would comment, "Nonsense! Children never get tired". However, I was like the little boy who ate too many green apples, -- I had inside information."