JAMES SHARPE TABOR

Birthdate:
May 1, 1818

Birthplace:
Alabama

Married:
Lydia Jane DeHart
November 4, 1844


Died:
October 14, 1889
Swain Co., N.C.
CHILDREN
Jefferson Tabor
John DeHart Tabor
Nathan Elbert Tabor
Miranda Jane Tabor
James Taylor Tabor
William Joseph Tabor
Thomas Harvey Tabor
Martin Webster Tabor
Henry Clay Tabor
Mary Lyzinthia Tabor
Sarah Eleanor Tabor
George Leroy Tabor
BORN
1845
May 3, 1846
May 11, 1848
October 3, 1849
August 11, 1851
January 22, 1853
August 24, 1854
June 24, 1856
May 24, 1858
April 7, 1961
March 5, 1863
October 7, 1865
DIED
June 26, 1867
August 17, 1931
March 21, 1923
March 3, 1907
November 13, 1918
November 2, 1920
July 29, 1920
April 23, 1937
February 15, 1927
October 11, 1946
June 26, 1947
March 26, 1858

He was a heavy set man, of average heigh. He had brown hair and grey eyes beneath heavy brows. He was a serious and fearless man, but mild and friendly. He frequently quoted from the Bible. He moved with his parents from Alabama to Tennessee when the countryside was little more than virgin forest land. His brother, Nathan T., was born in Tennessee. The two boys grew up very close. When he was 20 the two of them walked over narrow mountain roads and winding trails to Kentucky to visit relatives. He had a wild time with other young people in the community, but this all changed when he met and married Lydia DeHart. He then bought a farm on a brook flowing into Alarka Creek near the DeHart mills. A few years later they bought a farm containing 640 acres on the right bank of the Little Tennessee River near Sawmill Creek. He joined the Brush Creek Baptist Church and was a consistent member for the rest of his life. He was baptized by the Rev. David Elder on the first Sunday of November in 1846. When fighting broke out in the Civil War, he volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. He was assigned to duty with the Home Guard where he served until he became too old. As he grew older his health declined badly. He was confined to bed for the last three years of his life, suffering severe pain much of the time. He and his wife are buried in the Tabor Cemetery on a knoll in the Brush Creek Community of Swain County, NC.

Sources:
George Leroy Tabor's unpublished manuscript - 1955.
Gravemarkers - Tabor Cemetery - Brush Creek, Swain Co., NC.

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