Brief Life History of Serens Bradley
When Serens Bradley Tabor was born on 14 November 1892, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel Captain M. Tabor, was 18 and his mother, Mary A Hall, was 21. He married Grace Porter on 5 December 1917, in Olive Hill, Carter, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Olive Hill, Carter, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Upper Tygart, Carter, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died in 1935, in Carter, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Mountain Top Chapel Cemetery, Mountain Top, Carter, Kentucky, United States.
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- Serrenon Taber in household of Ca* Taber, "United States Census, 1900"
- Bradley Tabor, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Bradley Tabor, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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