The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
There is a bronze plaque on stone placed at site by the NSDAR in 2005
Another is a horizontal headstone given by the Veterans Administration
The third is of a bronze historical marker, also provided by the NSDAR
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Lt Col Gary Owen Green (Ret.)
William Tabor, Sr., was born 4 January 1761 at Orange County, North Carolina, a son of John Tabor, aged 26 years, and Elizabeth, ages 21 years.
Tabor joined a North Carolina Company of Light Horse under the command of Captain Alexander Irvine and Colonel Charles McDowell.
Colonel McDowell’s Regiment ambushed Ferguson's Loyalist band 12 September 1780, at the upper ford on Cane Creek and outmaneuvered the British force to the Overmountain region. A historic Cane Creek battle marker appears along US Highway 64 at Rutherford County, North Carolina, near the McDowell County Line.
Tabor married Susannah Tubb, 5 July 1781, at Rutherford County, North Carolina. They had five children over a 26 year period.
Tabor died 4 June 1844 at Louisville, Mississippi, aged 83 years. He was buried at Winston, Mississippi.
References:
Randell Jones: Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain, Pg. 3, 207, 297, 308, 372-374, 377, 397, 406. (2011).
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