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From: W Taber <>
Subject: [TABER] Fwd: {not a subscriber} JOHN TABOR/PA/NC/GA
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:18:12 -0500


Another message from the same non-subscriber...

>From: "DONNA MERRILL" <>
>To: <>
>Cc: <>, <>, <>
>Subject: {not a subscriber} JOHN TABOR/PA/NC/GA
>
>Hi Listers!
>
>John TABOR b. abt. 1793 in PA??. Died before 1821 in GA?? he married
>Anne Dorcas STOVALL abt. 1809 maybe in NC or GA. They had two boys
>William H. b. 1810 in Elbert Co., GA and John H. b. 1813 prob. in
>Elbert Co., GA.
>John TABOR died before 1821 when his widow Dorcas TABOR drew for
>herself and orphans of John TABOR in the 1821 Land Lottery.
>
>I have found that the family was awarded land in Houston Co., GA but
>shortly after became a part of Bibb Co., GA.
>
>A newspaper article has come to my attention from another lister
>that says William H. and John H. his brother wrote to the Governor
>of GA in 1869 asking if they were able to still claim the land.
>Evidentially Dorcas had the land examined before she left for AL and
>found it worthless. They supposedly were givin the land but I could
>find no record in Houston or Bibb County, GA to corroborate the
>story.
>
>After the death of John TABOR, Dorcas and her son's migrated to
>Morgan Co., AL where she later married her cousin Patrick Henry
>STOVALL. She made a deed of gift to her son's of some personal items
>and slaves before she married. Her brother Peter STOVALL was William
>and John's guardian. The boys later married and migrated to Marshall
>Co., MS about 1840.
>
>Any information or advice would be appreciated!!!!
>
>Thanks A Million!!!
>
>Donna Merrill
>

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