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.
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.
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