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
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"
Parents and Siblings
1900–1951 Male
1902–1997 Female
Siblings (4)
1922–2006 Male
1927–2007 Female
1929–2004 Female
1932–1990 Male
World Events (8)
1931
Age 2
1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II
Age 12
1949 · 1950s Texas Drought
Age 20
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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