Velma Irene Tabor

Female5 September 1929–30 November 2004

Brief Life History of Velma Irene

When Velma Irene Tabor was born on 5 September 1929, in Nashville, Howard, Arkansas, United States, her father, Alfred E Tabor Jr, was 28 and her mother, Pearl May Layton, was 27. She lived in McCaskill, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Hope, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States in 1995. She died on 30 November 2004, in Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Hope, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alfred E Tabor Jr
1900–1951
Pearl May Layton
1902–1997
Alfred E Tabor III
1922–2006
Maxine Gladys Tabor
1927–2007
Velma Irene Tabor
1929–2004
Billy Ray Tabor
1932–1990

Sources (9)

  • Thelma Tobar in household of Alfred E Tobar, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Velma Honea, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Velma I Honea, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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Siblings (4)

World Events (8)

1931

Age 2

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II

Age 12

Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.

1949 · 1950s Texas Drought

Age 20

One of most intense, costly, and devastating droughts ever recorded in the state of Texas. The entire state was in a state of drought by the summer of 1951. Less than 30-50% of the normal rainfall was received during this period. The state was plagued with dust storms similar to those from the infamous Dust Bowl. The drought ended in a destructive manner throughout 1957; storms, hail, tornadoes, and deadly floods.

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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