Dora Elizabeth Harry was the d/o James R. Harry b. 1872 & Cynthia Virginia 'Jennie' Compton,b. Oct 1873

Dora E. Harry was the first wife of Berkley Kelly Tabor, 1892-1954.

Berkley Kelly Tabor married, as a second wife, Nonnie Mae Walls, d/o James Monroe Walls & Rose Emaline 'Rosey' York. After Berkley Kelly Tabor died Nonnie Mae WALLS Tabor married Gabe East on 14 Jul 1960 in Tazewell Co., VA


1902, 1905, 1907-1908, 1908-1909, at Dudley School, at Mudfork, Tazewell Co., VA., located on the old Richard Adam Tabor & Mildred Permelia “Milly” Shrader homestead-later Edward Wexler Tabor Land. Edward Wexler Tabor also donated land for the later (different site) Wexler Tabor School.


Marriage
Page 222 # 237( Reg. 3, pg 222)
Falls Mills, Tazewell Co., VA , 8 Oct 1913
B. K. Tabor 21 single b. TAz Co VA s/o Elgin & Octavia Tabor.
Dora Harry 17 single b. Taz Co VA d/o J. R. & Jennie Harry.
Married by W.R. Rickman
( Groom a farmer, living in Taz Co VA)

Regarding the family of Dora Harry:

1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 235 Clearfork Dist., W. L. Stephens, enumerator
JAMES HARRY, 29, b. Feb 1871, farmer, b. VA (all in home b. VA)
Jennie Harry….., 26, b. Oct 1873, wife, had had 3 children all were living in 1900
Dora Harry,…….. 6, b. Apr 1894, dau
William Harry,… 4. b. Sep 1895, son
Ellie Harry, …..2, b. Aug 1898, dau

“Clinch Valley News”
Typed from Microfiche and annotated by Karen EAGLE Moman
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
Friday, December 14, 1906
TABORVILLE

Miss Dora Harry and Miss Edna Tabor were the guests of Miss Jenette Belcher last Saturday night.
[Dora Elizabeth Harry, d/o James R. Harry & Cynthia Virginia ‘Jennie’ Compton. Dora was the first wife of Berkley Kelly Tabor. Edna Eleanor Tabor, d/o Henry J. Tabor & Mary Arminta Wagner (sic). Edna married Stanley I. Sturgis]

1910 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
Dist 0096, Visit 0078
JAMES R. HARRY (sic), 39, b. VA (all in home b. VA)
Jammye Harry (sic), …....36, wife
Dora Harry……………., 15, dau
Willie Harry,…..……… 14, son
Ella May Harry,………. 13, dau
Buford Harry,………….. 5, son
Henry Harry, ……………3, son
1920 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
Typed as found
# 106 Falls Mills sec of Clearfork Dist
BERKLEY K. TABOR 27, farming, he and parents b.VA
Dora E. Tabor,………... 25, wife, she and her parents b. VA
Evan Tabor ……………. 5 dau (All children b. VA)
Ruth V. Tabor………….. 3 11/12= 3 yrs 11 months
Curtis B. Tabor………….2 2/12= 2 yrs 2 months

Berkely Kelly Tabor, s/o Elgin Whitley Tabor & Octavia Zane Tiller. Dora Elizabeth Harry (first wife), d/o James R. Harry & Virginia ‘Jennie’ Compton. James R. Harry, s/o John Harry and his third wife, Margaret E. Dedmons (sic). James R. Harry, full brother of Isaiah Henderson Harry (husband of Meldora Moore Tabor who was the d/o John Andrew Tabor and first wife, of three, Martha A. Compton.

Thelma Elizabeth Tabor, b. 12 Jan 1925, d/o Berkely Kelly Tabor, and first wife, Dora Elizabeth Harry, was adopted by her Aunt and Uncle, Charles Stewart Bane and Eugenia "Genia" Tabor. Her Mom, Dora Elizabeth Harry Tabor, died soon after she gave birth to Thelma Elizabeth Tabor . Thelma Elizabeth Tabor always know as Elizabeth Bane. Elizabeth married Basil Leonard Ballard. I had the great pleasure of living next door to Basil & Elizabeth Ballard for a while, on First Street, in Bluefield, Tazewell Co., VA-Karen Eagle Moman. Berkley Kelly Tabor married, as a second wife, Nonnie Mae Walls, d/o James Monroe Walls.

1930 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 680, Clearfork Dist,
BERKELY K. TABOR, .......37, he and parents b. VA, married first at age 21, Merchant, General Store''
Nonnie M Tabor…….…. 28, wife, b. TN, father & mother b. NC. married first at age 24.
May E. Tabor................15, b. Va. dau (EVONNE)
RUTH T. Tabor (sic), ....14, b. VA, Dau (Ruth Virginia)
Curtis B Tabor,........... 13, b. VA, son (Curtis Berkely)
Paul K. Tabor.............. 10, b. VA, son (Paul Kelly)
Zennith R Tabor (sic),.. 8. b. VA, dau
Delbert C. Tabor.........4, b. VA, son (Cecil Delbert)
Delores A. Tabor(sic),...1, b. VA., dau Deloris Ann
ONLY THE LAST TWO CHILDREN WILL BE those of NONNIE Mae WALL Tabor’

The Berkley & Dora Tabor family living near (according to enumeration of census) # 679 Lawrence Dietz , 54, b. PA, his wife, Emily, 64, wife. At # 681 lived the father of Berkley K. Tabor, Elgin W. Tabor, 83, Octavia 77, and Elgin's widowed son, William David Tabor, 48 , widower of Amanda Ella Wagner, 1887-1920

Thelma Elizabeth Tabor b. 12 Jan 1925 , not in this census, as she was adopted by the sister of Berkley Kelly Tabor when her mother, Dora Elizabeth (Harry) Tabor died on 29 Jan 1925. Berkley's sister was Eugenia Melissa 'Genia' (Tabor) bane, 1878/79 - 1968 and married Charles Stewart Bane, 1877-1965. Thelma Elizabeth was always known as Elizabeth Bane and she married Basil Leonard Ballard, Sr, in 1943

Thelma Elizabeth Tabor, b. 12 Jan 1925, was adopted by her Aunt and Uncle, Charles Stewart Bane, 1877-1965, and Eugenia Melissa "Genia" Tabor, 1878-1968 (sister of Berkley Kelly Tabor) . Thelma Elizabeth Tabor was always know as Elizabeth Bane. Elizabeth married Basil Leonard Ballard.


Berkley Tabor & Dora E. (Harry) Tabor :
Date of birth for Dora, 23 Apr 1894 (1-23-1894)
Buried in the Wexler Tabor Cemetery app. 1 1/2 miles from Route 643 in a remote site downhill on an old lane south of where the old Wexler Tabor School once stood on the Mud Fork, Tazewell Co, VA., Road. The improved entry is on top of the hill east of the Solomom P. “Sol” Tabor, Sr., homeplace (where the paved road turns into a dirt road that meanders down the hill in one direction and up and over the hill in another direction).


In a Tazewell Co., VA., area publication the death announcement of:
Mrs. Berkley K. Tabor (Harry) was listed on 6 Feb., 1925….this was the day the paper to be delivered…not the day of death


Children not listed below:
1. May Yvonne Tabor b.c. 1915 d. 17 Dec 1999-second wife of Edward Geieorge 'Ed' Sarver

2. Curtis Berkley Tabor (WWII POW) 1918-married twice Geneva Gill -and Margaret Presley. Geneva Hill also married Edward E. Hurley, Sr

3. Paul Kelly Tabor (WWII) b. 14 Jan 1920 m. Joyce Chapman of England

4. Thelma Elizabeth Tabor 12 Jan 1925:
Dora Elizabeth Harry Tabor, died four days after she gave birth to Thelma Elizabeth Tabor on 12 Jan 1925