Brief Life History of Silas D
When Silas D Tabor was born about 1840, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Garner Taber, was 36 and his mother, Hannah Tabor, was 33. He lived in West Creek Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died on 20 August 1864, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States.
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- Silas D Taber in household of Garner Taber, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Silas D Tabor - Government record: birth-name: Silas D. Taber
- Silas Taber, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (6)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
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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