He was my GGGGrandfather and if you go to "Borden's, Lane's And More at ancestry.com or bunnygale63.tribalpages.com I have his history; wives etc.
Following is his obit.
Galveston Daily News, March 17, 1877; pg 2
"Saturday, March 17, 1877"
Death of a Texas Pioneer
Thomas H. Borden emigrated to Texas in 1804, and was one of the Old Three Hundred of Austin's Colony. He passed through all the vidisities attendant upon the settlement of the country by Anglo Americans, and died at his residence in Galveston Friday morning March 16, at 6 o'clock, aged 72. Like many others, once well known in the country, he had spent so much of the later years of his life in retirement as to be little known to the majority of the present generation. He was a brother of Gail Borden, deceased, whose inventions for the preparation and preservation of meats, milk and vegetables have conferred so many benefits to mankind, and also the brother of John P. Borden, first Commissioner of the General Land Office of the Republic of Texas who still survives. Gail and Thomas H. Borden were the founders of the Telegraph newspaper established in Texas in 1835 and the office of which was destroyed at Harrisburg by Santa Anna, previous to the battle of San Jacinto, in 1836. The paper was afterward revived and sold
to Criger & Moore, who continued to publish it at Houston, where it had just been discontinued. Thomas H. Borden, like his brother Gail, was a man of ingenious and inventive turn, and was the pantantee of a steam gauge that was long in use on boats throughout the United States, and from which he realized such profits for a time placed him in independent circumstances. The war and the failure of some later inventions however, had a less favorable effect upon his pecuninry circumstances and for some years he has been suffering under the combined effects of age and ill health to such a degree as to cause his retirement from the pursuits of active life. He was the builder of the first mills for grinding grain in Galveston and as early as 1840 had a mill on Post office street, opposite the present post office; and he erected and occupied the dwelling now occupied by Judge R. D. Johnson. He constucted a sail car that with a south or north wind, ran along the beach to the west or east or the rate of sixteen miles an hour; but its use was discontinued for the want of patronage. This however, was rather a matter for his own amusement than as a means of gain. He leaves a wife and son, besides an adopted son, whose kindness and care robbed the long affliction which ended in his death of much of its bitterness and doubtless prolonged his life. Though few of his early associated in Texas survive to drop a tear over his remains, a long list of those who have known him since the days of the Texas Revolutin join his surviving relatives in sorrow over the close of his long and useful life.
Thank you so much, Barbara