Mary Nancy Tabor

Brief Life History of Mary Nancy

When Mary Nancy Tabor was born on 10 May 1830, in Brownstown, Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States, her father, Jesse Tabor, was 36 and her mother, Theresa Skinner, was 34. She married John Peters about 1849, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Lyon Township, Cloud, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 10 August 1897, in Cloud, Kansas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Cloud, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Townsend
1832–1862
Mary Nancy Tabor
1830–1897
Marriage: 12 June 1853
S Townsend
1851–
Andrew Jackson Townsend
1856–1914
Jesse R. Townsend
1858–1910

Sources (21)

  • Nancy Peters in household of John Peters, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Nancy Peters, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Nancy Taylor Bickford, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1832 · The Black Hawk War

Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.

1837

Historical Boundaries: 1837: Jackson, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Jackson, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Jackson, Iowa, United States

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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Nancy Tabor death notice

Delphos Republican August 13, 1897 DIED.- Nancy Taylor. The deceased was born the 10th of May, 1830 in Indiana and died August 10th, 1897, Cloud County, Kansas. She was married to A.H. Bickford in 18 …

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