Brief Life History of Mary Alice
When Mary Alice Tabor was born on 11 March 1834, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, her father, John S. Tabor, was 28 and her mother, Alice Thomas, was 26. She married Henry Abraham Loving on 6 June 1854, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Montana, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Louisburg Township, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 29 April 1906, in Elk City, Montgomery, Kansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elk City, Montgomery, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Mary Tabor in household of John S Tabor, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary Tabor, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
- Mary Alice Tabor Loving, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1834–1907 Male
1834–1906 Female
Children (12)
1855–1938 Male
1857–1904 Female
1860–1935 Female
1862–1935 Male
1866–1946 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1806–1875 Male
1807–1860 Female
Siblings (10)
1831–1872 Male
1832– Female
1834–1906 Female
1836– Female
1838–1913 Female
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World Events (8)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 2
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
Age 16
1863
Age 29
Name Meaning
English (southern): nickname from Middle English tabor, tabour ‘tabor’, a type of small drum (Old French tabor, tabour, tabur). Compare Taborn .
Czech and Jewish (from Bohemia) (Tábor): habitational name from the city of Tábor in southern Bohemia, founded in 1420 by Hussites as their fortification and named after the Mount Tabor near Nazareth in the Palestine, an important Biblical site. The city's name came to denote a Taborite, a member of the radical wing of the Hussite movement. Compare 3 below.
Slovenian, Croatian, and Polish: topographic name from tabor, a word of Czech (ultimately Biblical; see 2 above) or Turkish origin (from tabor ‘military camp’, also ‘battalion’), today meaning ‘camp’ (in Polish ‘camp of nomads’), but in Slovenian originally denoting a fortification, built in the times of the Turkish plunderage (15th–16th century) around a church atop a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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