Per my aunt, Mona Wamick, John's first born son, Thaddeus Glenn Borders, was an illegitimate child whose mother, thought to be a Roberts, died in childbirth and was buried close to Sharon Church with no marker.
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4YB-1HH : 23 December 2020), John Borders, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC6J-KXH : 14 January 2022), John Borders, Township 3 Rippys, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F34B-7F7 : 20 February 2021), John Borders in entry for Thodis Glenn Borders, 15 Oct 1923; citing Earl, Cleveland, North Carolina, reference fn 809 cn 377, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,893,180.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John: