Article from Tip Top, 1910 - Tazewell Co. VA Clinch Valley News Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA J. A. Leslie, Editor Established 1845 Published each Friday Clinch Valley News: Friday January 7, 1910, Tazewell, VA Tip Top Mrs. Jane Tabor, wife of Russell Tabor, died at Boissevain on last Saturday evening after only a few hours serious illness, supposedly her trouble. Mrs. Tabor was a Miss Havens before marriage, and well known in this part of the country. She was 79 years old and had been married 53 years and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are still living. Mr. Tabor was buried at the Tabor cemetery at her old home on Mud Fork on Monday.-Article submitted to CVN by McTeer Saunders in a community column. (Martha Jane Havens, d/o Howard Havens & Dicy Jane King. The cemetery is the Hugh Tabor Cemetery. The original log cabin of James Russell Tabor & Martha Jane Havens was built on this land where an Indian Village once stood. Many arrowheads were found on this property and when the land was plowed the turned earth revealed many other items that indicated it had been inhabited by Indians. Later the big beautiful two-storied home of Hugh Edward Tabor & Margaret Rebecca Sluss-my great grandparents- would be built around the old log cabin). As an added note I have seen Jane’s name listed several ways. The first name Martha found on the marriage record of their daughter, Mary J. Tabor. The parents are listed as Russell & Martha Tabor. When Hugh Edward Tabor married in 1886 his mother’s name is listed as Jane E. Tabor. I am not certain if she had three names of if one is incorrect. Martha Jane E. Havens? It was not unusual for a child to be named with three given names in that era. Since she had a sister, Eleanor, I am inclined to think if the "E" is a part of her legal name that it did not stand for Eleanor). (I especially wanted to get the next two articles out due to the great interest regarding when the dam was built-Karen-They are from a community column I will type later) Clinch Valley News: Friday, March 4, 1910, Tazewell, VA Falls Mills, March 2- The company dam, which is very near completion, at this place, is a beautiful little pond of water. Sunday being the first pretty day we have had in sometime, the dam was thronged with visitors. (The company was Norfolk & Western Railroad. This would become known as the Falls Mills Dam in later years and would have a club of locals who belong for the purpose of having fishing rights and excess to the swimming facilities, picnic grounds and cabins. At one time there was a beautiful white wooden gazebo for shelter and relaxation near the body of water. Our school picnics were held in the area. My grandfather, Samuel Henry Shrader, was a member of the Falls Mills Dam. I know that others fished/swam/picnicked/ice-skated there who were not members. My family always used the area since we lived behind the dam). Clinch Valley News: Friday, July 15, 1910, Tazewell, VA A crowd of young people from Bluefield spent Sunday at the N & W dam at this place. Miss Effie Lee and sisters were among the number. (Norfolk & Western Railroad built the dam, apparently for flood control, since their tracks were located lower down the road. I have no personal knowledge of Effie Lee). 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. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************