Brief Life History of Martha Patsy
When Martha Patsy Tabor was born on 7 September 1797, in Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jacob Tabor, was 27 and her mother, Rebecca Gregory, was 22. She married Henry D. Tabor on 7 January 1814, in Warren, Knox, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in Carrigan Township, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- Patsy Tabour, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Patsey Tabour, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Patsey Labor, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1823
Historical Boundaries: 1823: Marion, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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