Born around 1775
Died September 21, 1837 Jackson County, Indiana
Buried at either Crane Cemetery in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana or at Durland Cemetery (aka Crane Hill) in Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana.

Married Rebecca around 1793. Their children were Jesse, Rebecca and James.
Married Elizabeth or Nancy around 1809. Their children were Robert, Martin, Elizabeth, Andrew, Isaac, William Jr., and Sarah.
Married Sarah Whitson on November 30, 1831 in Jackson County, Indiana.

1820 census - William Tabor - Jackson County, Indiana
3 white males 0 to 10
2 white males 10 to 16
1 white male 16 to 18
1 white male 18 to 26
1 white male 45 and over
1 white female 0 to 10
1 white female 10 to 16
1 white female 18 to 26
2 persons engaged in agriculture

1820 census - Jesse Tabor - Jackson County, Indiana
1 white male 10 to 16
1 white male 18 to 26
1 white female 0 to 10
1 white female 16 to 18
1 person engaged in agriculture
2 free colored males 0 - 14
1 free colored male 14 to 26
1 free colored male 26 to 45
2 free colored males 45 and over
1 free colored female 14 to 26
1 free colored female 26-45

1830 census - William Tabor - Salt Creek, Jackson County, Indiana
1 male 5 to 10
1 male 10 to 15
1 male 15 to 20
1 male 50 to 60

1830 census - James Tabor - Salt Creek, Jackson County, Indiana
2 males under 5
1 male 15 to 20
1 male 20 to 30
1 female under 5
1 female 20 to 30

1830 census - Jesse Tabor - Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana
2 males under 5
2 males 10 to 15
1 male 30 to 40
1 female under 5
1 female 20 to 30

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The following information are excerpts from "Samuel Scott of Martinsville" by Ruby T. Scott, 1953, Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 49, Issue 1, pp 105-129
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/8166/10045

After many days of travel and nights of camping along the trail, the Scott family reached a spot on a branch of the East Fork of the White River, where they decided to settle, at least for a time. The branch was called Salt Creek. Later this region was named Salt Creek Township in Jackson County. Brownstown, the county seat, was established in 1816.

Near Salt Creek the Scotts found new friends in the family of William Tabor, who had come to this region sometime between 1788 and 1793, shortly after the general migration to the Northwest Territory began. He was, in fact, a "squatter," with no governmental authority for settling where he did, and no intention of giving up any part of the land he occupied through his own private arrangements with the Indians. Several years earlier he had come from Germany as a young man, probably first to Pennsylvania, and later through Virginia to Indiana. He had settled on high ground above a branch of Salt Creek, which soon became known as Tabor's Mound, and the stream as Tabor Branch. [William Tabor's eldest son Jesse was born in Jackson County in 1794, according to the records of Jesse's grandson, Ira R. Tabor, attorney in Davenport, Iowa. Letter from Ira R. Tabor to Purl A. Scott, July 19, 1928. See also, letter of John Leonard Scott to Ira R. Tabor, October 17, 1918]

Here he married and began to raise a family on the farm he was carving from the wilderness. In 1815 his family consisted of his wife and four children: Jesse, aged twenty-one, Rebecca aged twelve, Isaac about five years old, and Martin aged four. [It has been impossible to learn the name or the exact marriage date of William Tabor's first wife as there are no public records of marriages in this region at that time. Rebecca Tabor Scott's gravestone in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, near Scottland, Illinois, bears the inscription, "Died Feb. 7, 1886, aged 83 yrs, 3 days." Birth dates for which no record exists can be approximately calculated from records of marriage dates. Few men married before they were twenty-one, although girls married earlier, usually around the age of fifteen. Gilbert H. Doane, Searching for Your Ancestors (Minneapolis, 1948), gives an interesting discussion of this problem.]

William Tabor had many stories to tell. One of them concerned his earliest days at Tabor Mound. The Indians were very bad at that time and the few settlers had built a blockhouse on Tabor Mound and all moved into it.

Because of the tribesmen it was very dangerous for anyone to leave the blockhouse. Then one of the company died. Five men were detailed to take the corpse out and bury it. They succeeded in their mission, but when the party returned from the grave, the Indians fired on them, killing their leader. The other four men made their escape back to the blockhouse. [Told by Isaac Tabor to John Leonard Scott. Letter in Purl A. Scott Collection of family papers]

When the War of 1812 began, there were ninety-three families in Jackson County. Seventy families immediately fled from the country. Twenty-three families remained to see it through. These were the families of William Graham, Jesse B. Durham, John Griffiths, John Berry, Daniel McCoy, Samuel Slade, John Sage, Samuel Burcham, James McGee, Abraham Miller, Daniel Beem, Aquila Rogers, David Rogers, John Storm, Robert Sturgeon, James Hutcheson, John Johnson, Abraham Huff, John Ketchum, William Ruddick, John Parker, a family named Willson, and the family of William Tabor. "This little band got themselves together and built forts at convenient distances and locations… one at Burcham's, one at Huff's near the mouth of Huff's Creek, one near Vallonia and at other convenient points." [History of Jackson County, 315]

In the fall of 1812 the terrible massacre occurred at Pigeon Roost, when a band of Indians suddenly appeared at the settlement and killed twenty of the settlers, almost all women and children.

William Tabor had taken his family to Fort Vallonia for protection. Here they remained in comparative safety for a short time. Then an outbreak of fever made the fort, too, a doubtful refuge. Between redmen in the forest and fever at the fort, William preferred to meet the enemy he could see. The Tabors went back to their cabin home on Tabor Branch and "with the aid of four fierce dogs and an old rifle, William protected those dependent on him" until the war was over. [Chapman Brothers, Portrait and Biographical Album of Vermilion and Edgar Counties, Illinois (Chicago, 1889), 914]

Another marriage in Brownstown, of more immediate interest to the writer, was that of Samuel Scott, Jr. to young Rebecca Tabor on October 6, 1818. Rebecca was fifteen years old and Samuel twenty-five when the justice of the peace, James McTagertt, performed the simple ceremony "by consent of her father she being of Lawful Age." The clerk apparently wrote all names as they sounded to him. Rebecca's name is spelled "Rebekah Tabour" in License 49, and "Rebecah Tabor" when the bonds were solemnized the next day. [Early Marriage Record Book A, Jackson County, Indiana, 13. This is the original book, later copied in Marriage Books A. and B.]

Rebecca was the first of the Tabor children to marry. When her oldest brother Jesse was married on May 24, 1819, to Theresa Skinner, of the same family as David Scott's wife, Holley, Theresa's name was spelled "Treasey," probably her nickname. Through the years this name became so misunderstood by her descendants that it came out in 1928 as "Lucretia."