Article from Mud Fork, 1903, Obituary of W. S. Tabor, 1942 - Tazewell Co. VA Clinch Valley News Tazewell., Tazewell Co., VA Established 1845 Published Each Friday Cost-$1.00, in advance Clinch Valley News, Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA, Friday 10 July, 1903 Mud Fork, Va., July 7- As we have never seen any items from this place, I will now try and give you a few of the many happenings. Messrs. Luther and Robert Tabor were visiting home folks the 4th. (I believe to be Luther Charles Tabor & Robert Johnson Tabor, sons of Samuel Flummer Tabor). Miss Lottie Tabor was the guest of Edna Thompson Saturday night. (Charlotte Lavenia "Lottie" Tabor, d/o Elgin Whitley Tabor & Octavia Zane "Aunt Oca" Tiller. Lottie married Charles Mc Clellan Wagner, s/o Paris Witcher Wagner & Patria Ann Perdue. Edna Thompson-I BELIEVE this SHOULD have been Edna E. Thomason , d/o Charles E. Thomason and his wife, Frances. Edna’s grandparents were Daniel Thomason and Elizabeth A. "Lizzie" Deaton who had at least three children to marry Tabors. Because I have never found the surnames of the spouses of George, Charles E. & Robert M. Thomason I can not say if they might or might not be Tabor women)! 1. James Warren Thomason married Cynthia Ann Tabor, d/o Richard Adam & Mildred Permelia "Milly" (Shrader) Tabor. 2. Naomi Jane Thomason married William Alexander "Bee" Tabor , a grandson of Richard & Milly Tabor. "Bee" was the son of Henry Jefferson "Jeff" Tabor & Sarah Ann "Suzy" Scott . 3. India Jane Thomason married Nathaniel Tabor- I have not found his family link. They had at least two children: Nathaniel "Nattie" Tabor and Mary Ester Tabor who married a Fitzhugh L. Tabor-I have never found his family link. I know nothing of this family and have had a query posted for months. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, who has been very ill for sometime, we are sorry to say is no better at this writing. (Once again I BELEVE this to be Elizabeth A. Lizzie" Deaton Thomason-see above). Missess Lottie and Eugenia Tabor , who have been visiting friends and relatives in Mercer County for sometime, returned last week. (Charlotte Lavenia "Lottie " Tabor & Eugenia Melissa "Genia" Tabor., daughters of Elgin Whitley Tabor & Octavia Zane "Aunt Oca" Tiller. Charlotte in data above. Eugenia married Charles Stewart "Sidney" Bane. I find the Bane brothers confusing since one was nicknamed Sidney and one’s legal name was Sidney Clay Bane. Sidney Clay Bane married Callie M. Tabor, d/o Allen P. Tabor & Mary A. Elizabeth "Bettie" McClannahan who married Edward Thomas Scott after the death of Allen P. Tabor. Allen a s/o Russell B. Tabor & Elizabeth L. "Betsy" Compton. As an added note: Octavia Zane Tiller, d/o Ira Ellis Tiller and Nancy Hewlett/Holbrook Carter. * Hettie Marie Shrader , loved her "Aunt Oca." (Actually she was Hettie's great great aunt but called’Aunt Oca."). * I have seen this name both ways. I do not know which is the correct middle name. Miss Angie, daughter of P. W. Wagner, is visiting in Bluefield this week. (Mary Angie Wagner, d/o Paris Witcher Wagner & Patria Ann Perdue and Angie was a sister to Charles McClelland Wagner-mentioned above and known as C. M. or "Boss" Wagner and a MUCH loved and respected man. Angie married Sanford E. Ayers, Sr., and they ran a store at Falls Mills, VA before about 1950. It was later run buy a Dix family who had a son named Robert Shuler Dix-known as Bobbie or Sparks. Bobbie came to our birthday party once when Constance Adel "Connie" Crew -daughter of Rev. Harry & Thelma Barger Crew- and I had a joint bitthday party at the Methodist parsonage beside the Dix Grocey Store.The store and the parsonage were beautiful tan stone structures. Bobbie bought Connie and I a set of three silver pins that had red cloisonné roses and green leaves on the handles. The pins were a fork, a knife and a spoon…each about three inches long . My daughter, Sybrena, now has mine. This party was about 1953 or 54. I must tell a cute story about his dear Crew family. How they enriched my young life! There were three children; Connie, Jimmy and little Linda. Connie and I took paino lessons together and since I lived on the farm behind the Falls Mills Dam ?up a long dirt road-I stayed with Connie on the days we were to go for our lessons. Rev. Crew would take us to the lessons. Once when I was there all the deacons were having a meeting downstairs in the parsonage. Mrs. Crew was sewing and Connie, Linda and I were upstairs. We heard great laughter and then Rev. Crew said, "Thelma, will you please come and retrieve Jimmy?" WELL, it seems as if Jimmy had decided to take his Teddy Bear to the Deacon’s meeting..which was O. K. Rev. Crew told us later that all at once Jimmy wrapped his bear up and decided it needed a pillow so he ran off upstairs and came flying back with the perfect pillow…a Kotex pad…which he tenderly placed under the head of his lil’ bear. Jimmy was about six at the time. Another time Mrs. Crew asked Linda to go out onto the parlor (it was a room with wrap-around windows) and get some butter out of the freezer. Linda went to the door and looked through the glass door that opened into the darkened room. She glanced backwards at her mother and tried again but could not go into the room. At this point she walked over to her mom and said, "I am afraid of the dark and I can not go to the freezer." Mrs. Crew said, "Now, Linda, you know Jesus is everywhere and will watch your every step." Beautiful little Linda braced her shoulders and with confidence marched back to the dreaded entryway. She opened the door and stuck only her little arm through and said, "Jesus, will you be good enough to hand me a pound of butter?" Mrs Thelma (Barger) Crew was an Indian and Connie and Linda were beautiful young girls with almond eyes. Thelma had a brother, Warren Barger, who used to sing solos at the Falls Mills Methodist and Mud Fork Methodist Church—Oh, what a voice. Mr. Willie Tabor one of our prominent young gentlemen, has accepted a position at Pocahontas. (I BELIEVE this MIGHT have been William Stewart "Willie" Tabor, s/o Henry Harrison Tabor & Mary Margaret Butt, d/o William Harrison Butt and Lucelia Elizabeth Harris) >From an earlier file: DEATH: Clinch Valley News, March 6, 1942 FORMER CITIZEN OF COUNTY DIES IN WEST VIRGINIA W. S. Tabor, age 67, a native of Tazewell county, died Thursday of last week in a Huntington, W, Va., hospital. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon from Kenova Presbyterian church, and his body was brought to Bluefield, W. Va., for burial on Monday. Mr. Tabor was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harrison Tabor; he attended public schools at Bramwell, W. Va., and studied civil and mining engineering at Lehgih (sp) University, Bethlehem, Pa. During the Spanish-American War Mr. Tabor served as a captain with the Second Division, Second Army Corps, headquarters staff. After the war he was superintendent of construction at the Grand Valley project in Colorado and was consulting engineer for the Elephant Butte Dam of the Rio Grande Valley projuct in New Mexico. He is survived by his widow, who before marriage was Miss Minnie Ellen Jennelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jennelle, of Eggleston, Va.; a daughter, two brothers and a sister. (William Stewart Tabor, s/o Henry Harrison Tabor & Mary Margaret Butt). 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