Married 6 Oct 1848 to Dr Henry Wythe Tabb
Children:
Henry Adam TABB 1848-1917
Cynthia Claxton TABB 1850-1921
Wythe TABB 1852-1871
Martha TABB 1854-1855
Susan Vanderpoel TABB 1856-1932
Stone only was moved from
Auburn, Mathews Co.
in 1930 to Ware Episcopal
Church, Gloucester Co, Virginia
From Dr Wythe's dairy:
In January 1858 she was attacked with a disease of the stomach which continued to increase resisting all remedies, and after three weeks of great suffering she breathed her last in the afternoon of the fifth of February 1858, in the full possession of all her faculties taking an affectionate leave of all her children, medical attendants, the Reverend Mr. Jones and the servants. She seemed to pass quietly from earth to heaven repeating the first two lines of the 172nd hymn:
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight of way
She commended to my daughter Sally (who had nursed and watched by her bedside day and night with unceasing and sleepless diligence) the general care of her children, but of Susan in particular, she requested her adoption, and most faithfully has she fulfilled the trust. Much has been said of mother-in-laws, but thank God the united voice of my three oldest daughters (the oldest Mary Eliza her schoolmate, now in heaven) bore testimony to the pure, unselfish, amiable character of their mother-in-law, the two eldest looking up to her more as elder sister than a mother, consulting her in everything relying implicitly upon her judgment, their social intercourse never interrupted by a cross word or look. But her conduct towards my youngest daughter Lucia who fell more immediately under her care called forth my gratitude and the admiration of her sisters and often have I heard Lucia say that she could not possibly love her mother more than she did her; the letter she wrote to Lucia while at school in Raleigh, N. C. would do honor to the head and heart of any stepmother or own mother and would to God that all stepmothers could read them and possess the feelings that prompted them.
Children:
Henry Adam TABB 1848-1917
Cynthia Claxton TABB 1850-1921
Wythe TABB 1852-1871
Martha TABB 1854-1855
Susan Vanderpoel TABB 1856-1932
Stone only was moved from
Auburn, Mathews Co.
in 1930 to Ware Episcopal
Church, Gloucester Co, Virginia
From Dr Wythe's dairy:
In January 1858 she was attacked with a disease of the stomach which continued to increase resisting all remedies, and after three weeks of great suffering she breathed her last in the afternoon of the fifth of February 1858, in the full possession of all her faculties taking an affectionate leave of all her children, medical attendants, the Reverend Mr. Jones and the servants. She seemed to pass quietly from earth to heaven repeating the first two lines of the 172nd hymn:
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight of way
She commended to my daughter Sally (who had nursed and watched by her bedside day and night with unceasing and sleepless diligence) the general care of her children, but of Susan in particular, she requested her adoption, and most faithfully has she fulfilled the trust. Much has been said of mother-in-laws, but thank God the united voice of my three oldest daughters (the oldest Mary Eliza her schoolmate, now in heaven) bore testimony to the pure, unselfish, amiable character of their mother-in-law, the two eldest looking up to her more as elder sister than a mother, consulting her in everything relying implicitly upon her judgment, their social intercourse never interrupted by a cross word or look. But her conduct towards my youngest daughter Lucia who fell more immediately under her care called forth my gratitude and the admiration of her sisters and often have I heard Lucia say that she could not possibly love her mother more than she did her; the letter she wrote to Lucia while at school in Raleigh, N. C. would do honor to the head and heart of any stepmother or own mother and would to God that all stepmothers could read them and possess the feelings that prompted them.
Married 6 Oct 1848 to Dr Henry Wythe Tabb
Children:
Henry Adam TABB 1848-1917
Cynthia Claxton TABB 1850-1921
Wythe TABB 1852-1871
Martha TABB 1854-1855
Susan Vanderpoel TABB 1856-1932
Stone only was moved from
Auburn, Mathews Co.
in 1930 to Ware Episcopal
Church, Gloucester Co, Virginia
From Dr Wythe's dairy:
In January 1858 she was attacked with a disease of the stomach which continued to increase resisting all remedies, and after three weeks of great suffering she breathed her last in the afternoon of the fifth of February 1858, in the full possession of all her faculties taking an affectionate leave of all her children, medical attendants, the Reverend Mr. Jones and the servants. She seemed to pass quietly from earth to heaven repeating the first two lines of the 172nd hymn:
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight of way
She commended to my daughter Sally (who had nursed and watched by her bedside day and night with unceasing and sleepless diligence) the general care of her children, but of Susan in particular, she requested her adoption, and most faithfully has she fulfilled the trust. Much has been said of mother-in-laws, but thank God the united voice of my three oldest daughters (the oldest Mary Eliza her schoolmate, now in heaven) bore testimony to the pure, unselfish, amiable character of their mother-in-law, the two eldest looking up to her more as elder sister than a mother, consulting her in everything relying implicitly upon her judgment, their social intercourse never interrupted by a cross word or look. But her conduct towards my youngest daughter Lucia who fell more immediately under her care called forth my gratitude and the admiration of her sisters and often have I heard Lucia say that she could not possibly love her mother more than she did her; the letter she wrote to Lucia while at school in Raleigh, N. C. would do honor to the head and heart of any stepmother or own mother and would to God that all stepmothers could read them and possess the feelings that prompted them.
Children:
Henry Adam TABB 1848-1917
Cynthia Claxton TABB 1850-1921
Wythe TABB 1852-1871
Martha TABB 1854-1855
Susan Vanderpoel TABB 1856-1932
Stone only was moved from
Auburn, Mathews Co.
in 1930 to Ware Episcopal
Church, Gloucester Co, Virginia
From Dr Wythe's dairy:
In January 1858 she was attacked with a disease of the stomach which continued to increase resisting all remedies, and after three weeks of great suffering she breathed her last in the afternoon of the fifth of February 1858, in the full possession of all her faculties taking an affectionate leave of all her children, medical attendants, the Reverend Mr. Jones and the servants. She seemed to pass quietly from earth to heaven repeating the first two lines of the 172nd hymn:
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight of way
She commended to my daughter Sally (who had nursed and watched by her bedside day and night with unceasing and sleepless diligence) the general care of her children, but of Susan in particular, she requested her adoption, and most faithfully has she fulfilled the trust. Much has been said of mother-in-laws, but thank God the united voice of my three oldest daughters (the oldest Mary Eliza her schoolmate, now in heaven) bore testimony to the pure, unselfish, amiable character of their mother-in-law, the two eldest looking up to her more as elder sister than a mother, consulting her in everything relying implicitly upon her judgment, their social intercourse never interrupted by a cross word or look. But her conduct towards my youngest daughter Lucia who fell more immediately under her care called forth my gratitude and the admiration of her sisters and often have I heard Lucia say that she could not possibly love her mother more than she did her; the letter she wrote to Lucia while at school in Raleigh, N. C. would do honor to the head and heart of any stepmother or own mother and would to God that all stepmothers could read them and possess the feelings that prompted them.
Inscription
In Memory of ELLEN TABB
Wife of
Dr. Henry W. Tabb and Daughter of
Adam & Mary Foster
Born Oct. 29th, 1828
Died February 5th 1858
"Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away."
(CARVER) A. GADDESS, Maker, Balt.
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