When Ruth Tabb was born about 1807, in Virginia, United States, her father, Edward Tabb, was 28 and her mother, Elitha "Leathy" Turner, was 32. She married James Ambrose Wheeler on 5 December 1828, in Caldwell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died in April 1853, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Kentucky, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English (Cornwall and Devon):
from a Middle English personal name derived from Old English Tæbba, of uncertain origin if not related to the word in 2 below.
possibly a nickname from Middle English tabbe ‘tab, short strap’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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