Tabor in West Virginia
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Biography of Robert A. Tabor - Mercer Co. WV The History of West Virginia,
Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical
Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, Pages
316-317 ROBERT A. TABOR, who conducts at 85 Bland Street one of the leading retail grocery establishments in the City of Bluefield, Mercer County, was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, September 11, 1888, and is a son of Elgan and Octavia (Tiller) Tabor, who still reside on the fine old homestead farm in Tazewell County, the father being seventy-five and the mother sixty-eight years of age at the time of this writing, in 1921. Elgan Tabor was a member of the local Home Guards in Tazewell County during the later part of the Civil War. He has long been one of the representative exponents of farm industry in that county, and is a citizen who commands high place in popular esteem. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Church and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. Of the ten children all are living except one, and of the number the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth. Robert A. Tabor was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and gained his early education in the public schools of his native county. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of the Pocahontas Fuel Company, for which he assisted in the building of the power house at Boisevain, Virginia. Thereafter he was for a time associated with farm enterprise, and he then became employed again by the Pocahontas Fuel Company, at Switchback, Virginia, where he was identified with the erection of dwelling houses for employees of the company. He was thus engaged nine months and later was employed in a restaurant at Pocahontas, where still later he became associated with one of his brothers in opening a general store. Three years later he entered the employ of the Elliott-Frazier Company, with which he continued his connection four years, and with a son of Mr. Elliott, one of his employers, he came to Bluefield, West Virginia, and they here opened a grocery store. The business was conducted one year under the firm name of Tabor & Elliott, and finally Mr. Tabor purchased his partners interest, since which time he has conducted the enterprise independently, with a large and appreciative patronage that marks the establishment as one of the most prosperous of its kind in the city. The success which Mr. Tabor has gained in business is the more pleasing to note by reason of the fact that when he initiated his independent business career his capital consisted only of an excellent reputation, with incidental good credit. He is a member of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church. In 1908 Mr. Tabor wedded Miss Lailia F. Reynolds, daughter of George and Mahala Reynolds, of Tazewell County, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Tabor have five children: Robert Harrison, Eula, Lonnie, Edwin and Harry. (Submitted by Susie Lloyd to USGenWeb Archives) |
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Biography of McHenry Tabor, The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 22 M.D. McHENRY TABOR, M. D. The earnest and skillful labors of Dr. McHenry Tabor as a physician and surgeon have been applied to the benefit of the important coal mining communities of McDowell County. He is held in the highest personal as well as professional esteem in the coal mining town of Crumpler, which is located on a branch of the Norfolk & Western Railway, connecting with the main line at North Pork. Doctor Tabor was born at Camp Creek, Mercer County, West Virginia, August 15, 1885, and is of Old Virginia ancestry, more remotely of Dutch and Irish origin. His parents were George and Olive (Worrell) Tabor, the former a native of Tazewell and the latter of Carroll, Virginia. His father served in a Virginia regiment under General Wise during the war between the states. After this service he returned to his farm and later for fifteen years was in the general merchandise business. He was an active member of the Christian Church. McHenry Tabor attended the common schools in Mercer County, finished his work in the State Normal at Athens in 1905, and took his medical course in the Medical College at Richmond, Virginia, where he graduated in 1910. For six months he was an interne in the City Hospital at Richmond, and then began his work in the West Virginia coal fields. For some seven or eight years he handled a very successful general practice at Glenalum, and in 1918 came to Crumpler in charge of the medical work for the Zenith mines of the United Pocahontas Coal Company. During the World war he made two attempts to get into the army service, but the authorities said that he could not possibly do a greater or more patriotic work than he was doing as a mining physician. Doctor Tabor is a member of the County, West Virginia State and American Medical Asso- ciations, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1915, at Glenalum, he married Miss Elizabeth L. Mitchell, daughter of Daniel and Fannie (Loving) Mitchell, of Abingdon, Virginia. Her father was a banker and died in March, 1921, at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Tabor have one daughter, Nancy Overton. (Submitted by Valerie F. Crook to USGenWeb Archives) |