Article from Taborsville, 1902 - Tazewell Co. VA Clinch Valley News Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Esatblished 1845 Published Each Friday Cost- $1.00 per year- In Advance April 25, 1902 TABORSVILLE Taborsville Items Farmers are busy sowing oats and planting potatoes. Feed I getting scarce and the grass is growing slow so we are longing to see some pretty warm weather. Mr. C. E. Buckland who has been the Postmaster at Falls Mills for some time has excepted a position at Cooper W.Va. and Dr. A.W. Tabor takes his place in the post office. The Dr. is a good Postmaster and all around good fellow any way you take him. ( Charles Edward Buckland, Sr., s/o William Jasper Buckland & Emily "Emma" Tabor. Emma the d/o james Harrison Tabor & Nancy Moore Runion/Runyon. Dr.A.W.Tabor-the ONLY A.W. Tabor I know of that era was Alexander Waltham Tabor but I have never seen him addressed as a doctor before this article. I know he was a "mover & and shaker" because he held several offices, at differrent times, in the Harman Masonic Lodge at Bluefield, VA. A.W.Tabor, s/o Amos H.Tabor & Cynthia McPherson). ADDED DATA ON ALEXNDER WALTHAM TABOR & NO. 222 HARMAN MASONIC LODGE: A. W. Tabor served as Master of Harman Masonic Lodge No. 222, in 1887-1888. HARMAN MASONIC LODGE 222 Bluefield, Tazewell Co., VA (From the "Brief History" issued to its members in 1966 when George E. Kidd was the Most Worshipful Grand Master and Worshipful Eugene E. Fanning was the Master of Harman Lodge). The lodge was granted its charter, signed on 12 Dec., 1866, when Edward H. Bane was the Grand Master of the state of Virginia. Action taken to create this lodge was from Masonic Lodge No. 62 at Jeffersonville, Tazewell Co., VA., (Now Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA). Those who signed this petition were: John S. W. Neel Z. S. Witten John A Calfe Wm, F. Neel G. P. George J. Mosby Davis Wm. L. Graham "Harman Masonic Lodge No. 222 A. F. and A. M. (Ancient Free and Accepted Masons) is now located in Bluefield, Tazewell Co., VA., but met on Bluestone through the year 1882, when it moved to Graham, (now Bluefield,VA-became Bluefield in 1924 with West Graham being a different area for many years). The lodge met the first Saturday of each month in a log building on the top of the hill between the Alex St. Clair and the Tiffiney homes, near where in 1966, the old St. Clair School stood at St. Clairs Crossing. The current building was started in 1895 after a fire destroyed the frame building in which it had been meeting at Graham, VA. C. W. Anderson was the Master in 1895. The cornerstone was laid in the new building on July 2, 1895. The Lodge was named in honor of: COLONEL EDWIN HOUSTON HARMAN, s/o Erastus Granger Harman (s/o Col Hezekiah Harman & Mary Brown) & Sarah Bane (d/o Howard Bane & Lettice Hickman), was born February 13, 1835, in the Bluestone Valley, Tazewell County, Virginia. He was tone of the first-born of that section of the county. On the 2nd of April 1861, he married Miss Jennie King at the bride’s home on Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia; a few days thereafter entered the Virginia Infantry. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment. He was a daring and accomplished soldier and officer; and it was strangely decreed by fate that he should fall in battle but a few miles distant from the place where he won his bride three years previously. On the 9th of May 1864 , Colonel Harman was mortally wounded at the battle of Cloyd’s Mountain, and died from the wound two days later. His dust now rests in a hero’s grave in Thorn Spring Cemetery, about six miles west of where he fell in battle. The first Worshipful Master of Harman Lodge was Zachariah S. Witten. 1850 TAZEWELL COUNTY VIRGINIA CENSUS # 394 (nmaes typed as found) ERASTUS G. HARMAN, 46, farmer, b. VA (all in home b. VA) .....Sally, 39 .....Edwin H., 15 ..…Auretia E. 15 .....Elevira, 12 .....Martha A., 10 ....Olevia C., 8 .....Victoria, 6 .....Robert p., 4 .....Howard B. 2 .....Chatrles C. 5/12 JOHN M. DAVIS, 26, merchnt (sic) BEDFORD B. SHELTON, 20, Clerk Mr. Frank Hill of Cooper, W.Va., is up visiting his brother, W. G. Hill. as was also Mr. Charles Wise of Eckman, W.Va. visiting his wife and little sons. (Frank Hill and Wiley G. Hill were sons of Hardin H. & Jane Hill of NC. I know from Wiley G. and his sister Mary’s marriage records, that Wiley G. and Mary Hill were born in Allegheny Co., NC. Wiley G. Hill married Nacny B.Perdue, d/o Silas Henry Perdue & Nancy Jane Powell. Mary Hill, born about 1863, married Silas W. Perdue, s/o James Henry Perdue & Sarah Elizabeth Perdue . Sarah Elizabeth a daughter of Silas Henry Perdue & Nancy Jane Powell. A son of Wiley G. Hill & Nancy B.Perdue, Felix S. Hill, married Beulah Mae Tabor, d/o Elgin Whitley Tabor & Octavia Zane Tiller.). (There is a POSSIBILITY that Charles Wise was kin to Hugh W. Wise Hugh W. Wise was the son of Harvey Allen Wise, I, and his first of three wives, Louisa Eliza Havens who was the sister of Martha Jane & Eleanor Havens and they were the daughters of Howard Havens, Sr., & Dicey Jane King. Martha Jane Havens married James Russell Tabor while Eleanor Havens married Stephen Paris Tabor. Another sister, Mary Havens, married John Wilson Mathena Please be careful when researching the Howard Havens name in Tazewell Co., VA as there were several). Rev. Mr. Jones pastor of the M.E. church is holding a protracted meeting at Falls Mills. He says religion is as scarce at Falls Mills as hen teeth and that is just about the truth. Will Compton is sewing a big lot of grass seed this spring. He syas he thinks it will be a good season for grass this year. (I believe this to be Winfiled Scott Compton, s/o Cornelius Compton & Rebecca Jane Patterson. See article of May 16, 1902 of Taborsville regarding his death). Mr. James Belcher of Mercer Co., W. Va., was on Mud Fork last week selling farm machinery . He sold his friend W. G. Hill a mower and hay rake. (I BELIEVE this to have been James J./John James Belcher, s/o Isom Green Belcher & Mary Catherine Deaton. James J. Belcher married Ellen R. Compton . Isom Green Belcher, s/o Moses J. Belcher & Nancy Elizabeth Jane Tabor-I saw each of the three names used in the marriage records of her children. Ellen R. Compton’s marriage record from the OLD Macedonia Methodist Church records reflests that they were married February 8, 1896, Tazewell Co., VA. -Probably Mud Fork. See W.G. Hill above-same man. The only Ellen Compton in the 1880 Tazewell Co., VA Census was in the home of Krines (sic) & Nancy Compton but I do not know if it was this Ellen R. Compton). C. E.Compton of Flat Top Yards has been real sick for several days, but is some better at this writing. (I believe to be Charles E. Compton, s/o Ballard Preston Compton & Deliah Harless. Charles E. Compton married Emma J. Poe, d/o James A. Poe. Mr. Will Compton one of our most popular young men of this place, and Miss Ida Belcher of Mercer Co., W.Va.. were UNITED in marriage at the home of the bride’s father Mr. James Belcher. On the following day they came to Taborsville where they will make their future home. (I am NOT certain on this one. I do have an Ida T. Belcher,born about December 1879, to James E. Belcher & Amanda C. French. James E. Belcher , s/o Moses J. Belcher & Nancy Elizabeth Jane Tabor. Amanda C. French , d/o Andrew P. L. French & Rebecca Day. Can anyone help with this couple that married? I do not show a marriage for my Ida T. Belccher). Mr. & Mrs. T. G. Sutfen (sic) of Elkhorn was up last Sunday week ago visiting ther brother Charles Sutfen. Mr. Tabor Belcher says it will be pretty hard on him to pay tax on seven dogs, but he will just advance the price of rabbits ten cents, and soon make it back. (Well, here is Tabor Belcher again, I thought they had made a mistake with the first name when it was typed at the News but this is twice I have seen the name so perhaps someone can help us and tell us the full name of Tabor Belcher so we can find his connection to the Belcher/Tabor families. I thought they had meant Tobias /Albert Tobias "Tobe" Belcher. I do not find a Tabor Belcher in 1900 Tazewell Co., VA Census). Mr. J. C.Fink was visiting his son Hugh at Keystone last Sunday. Submitted by Karen EAGLE Moman **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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