TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Clinch Valley News, 12 Jun 1908
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
Friday, June 12 1908

LOCAL NEWS

H. J. TABOR, of Falls Mills, was in town on Tuesday, and changed ends of
the tally stick. When asked about the TABORS, he said, " they are all
hard lots except ALEX."
We hope Alex will labor with the TABORS.
(I BELIEVE H. J. Tabor was Henry J. Tabor, s/o Stephen Paris Tabor &
Eleanor Havens.  It seems, about 100 years later, that this was an
insult, to the Tabor families of the area, but that would not be the
truth. The Tabors were a very respected family. Since many of the men
were Masonic Brothers they got a kick out of this kind of good-natured
banter among themselves, as I have found in many issues of the "Clinch
Valley News." I feel certain the general well-informed public, in that
era, realized this fact. Alexander ‘Alex’ Waltham Tabor, s/o Amos H.
Tabor and grandson of Daniel Tabor & Mary Martha Flummer. However, I do
not know what "change ends of the tally stick’’ meant). A. W. Tabor was
Master of Harman Lodge # 222, 1887-1888).

E. G. WAGNER was here on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Board of
Supervisors, of which he is a worthy member, and changed ends of the
tally stick.
( Elias Green Wagner, s/o David Nicewander Waggoner & Mariah E. Deaton.
Known as GREEN Wagner, he moved with his second wife, Mary Ann ‘Mollie’
Kinzer, d/o John Broce Kinzer &  Clarrisa Jennette Tabor, d/o Richard
Adam Tabor, to Bland Co., VA in October 1909).

Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
April 2002