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     Roberta was born at Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 21 June 1824.¹ Roberta died on 16 September 1912 at Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, at age 88.¹

     Marcellus was born at Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 21 July 1818.¹ He married Lucretia Radcliff Hicks at Granville County, North Carolina, on 12 May 1847.² Marcellus died on 27 April 1904 at Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, at age 85.¹ His body was interred in 1904 at Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, at Elmwood Cemetery.³

     James was born on 12 July 1821.¹ James died on 7 November 1821.¹

     Camillus was born at Halifax County, Virginia, on 5 April 1816.¹ Camillus died on 2 April 1871 at age 54.¹

     Robert was born at Halifax County, Virginia, on 15 May 1822.¹ Robert died on 16 September 1912 at Danville, Virginia, at age 90.

     Martha was born at Halifax County, Virginia, on 7 July 1828.¹ Her body was interred in May 1917 at Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, at Green Hill Cemetery.¹ Martha died on 17 May 1917 at age 88.¹

     Lucius was born on 10 May 1826.¹ Lucius died on 23 September 1893 at Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, at age 67.¹

     Matoaka was born at Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia, on 17 September 1595.¹ She married John Rolfe at Jamestown, Virginia, on 5 April 1614.¹ Matoaka died in March 1617 at Gravesend, Kent, England, at age 21.¹

     He married Sarah (---?---).¹ John was born at Heacham, Norfolk County, Virginia, on 6 May 1585.¹ He married Matoaka "Pocahontas" Powhatan at Jamestown, Virginia, on 5 April 1614.¹ John died in March 1622 at James City, Virginia, at age 36.¹

     It is rumored that after Jane died, Thomas moved to North Carolina and remarried. Because of his ethnic background, he probably would never have acknowledged he was half Indian or anything about his background. If he did remarry and had children who knew his story they may ahve moved to England instead of staying in the colonies and risking persucution.

Source: http://www.primenet.com/~dlytton/wdc/z0000593.html. Thomas was born at Smith's Plantation, Virginia, on 30 January 1614.¹ He married Jane Poythress at Virginia circa 1640.¹ Thomas died circa 1675 at Virginia.¹

     Jane was born at Jamestown, Virginia, circa 1630.¹ She married Thomas Rolfe at Virginia circa 1640.¹ Jane died in January 1680 at Charles City, Virginia.¹

     He married Mary Kennon.¹ John was born in 1676. John died in 1729.

     She married John Bolling.¹ Mary died. Mary was born.

     John died. John was born.

     Jane died. Jane was born.

     Mary died. Mary was born.

     Elizabeth died. Elizabeth was born.

     Martha died. Martha was born.

     Anne died. Anne was born.

     Beverly died. Beverly was born at Cumberland County, Virginia.

     Susan died. Susan was born.

     George was born at Georgia on 26 September 1824. He married Elizabeth Jane Tabb at Hardin County, Texas, in 1869.¹ George died on 15 January 1910 at Pittsburg, Camp County, Texas, at age 85. His body was interred after 15 January 1910 at Pittsburg, Camp County, Texas, at Rose Hill Cemetery.

     Amanda died. She married Bob Sinclair at Smith County, Mississippi.^1,2 Amanda was born at Smith County, Mississippi, in 1832.^1,2

     He married Amanda Tabb at Smith County, Mississippi.^1,2 Bob died. Bob was born.

     Jarutha was born at Yalobusha County, Mississippi, in 1834.^1,2 She married Jesse Mercer Cartlage circa 1852.^3,2 Jarutha died after 1870.¹

     Jesse died. Jesse was born at South Carolina in 1824.¹ He married Jarutha Tabb circa 1852.^2,3

     Joseph died at Hardin County, Texas.^1,2 Joseph was born at Smith County, Mississippi, in 1837.^1,2

     There is a great deal of family lore on John Henry Tabb and I recall grandmother telling of the years in Mississippi before they came out to Texas. Evidently he was overseer of a "poor farm" in the Houston/Dallas area of Mississippi (North East of central Mississippi) and was a fiesty gentleman. He was also a veteran of the war between the states and fought with two of the armies of the South; the Army of Tennessee & the Army of Mississippi, rising from private to Captain by the end of the war or rather his capture before the end of the war. Great grandmother Tabb drew a widow's pension as a result of his service and we have the papers of application and award. Two of my aunts were members of the Daughters of the Confederacy and a ceremony was held a few years back honoring Captain Tabb as the only Civil war veteran to be buried in the Needwood (pronounced Neatwood) Cemetery. The land, some of it still in the posession of our family, was part of the old Rocking Chaire Ranche ranges. It was Ammons land rather than Tabb because Mr. Tabb retired and moved in with his daughter and son-in-law shortly after they married.

Source: E-mail from James Wesley Ammons (jjam79095@hotmail.com) dated 17 September 02

The uncles of my grandmother, Dave and Dick Goodwin evidently were companions of Great Grandfather Tabb before the Civil War and possibly they all went out to Tennessee together to sort out the mess early in the war. John Henry Tabb was wounded early on and sent home on convalescent leave. It appears he never returned and was carried on the rolls of the Army of The Tennessee as a deserter. At the same time he was listed as a Master Sergeant in the Army of the Mississippi. The Goodwin brothers evidently entered in the enterprise of being professional settlers after the war and would homestead land that was connected and build the improvements necessary to own the homesteads on the property line. After receiving title to the lands they would sell and move on to the next area where land was cheap and homestead more land. They wound up here in Collingsworth County, TX and eventualy split up from here and both married and moved on to other areas; one at Paducah, TX and the other to another location which I cannot recall. My father told the story of visiting one of his great uncles when he was a preteen and the uncle was a very old man with hands that shook so badly that he could barely hold the pistol while he shot the heads off the chickens they had for dinner. That same great uncle is written up in several articles I have seen at the county museum as being involved in a shooting where he missed a Mr. Beasley at close range with a shotgun loaded with buckshot but did manage to hit the county courthouse, inflicting damages for which he was charged $800.00. Mr. Beasley later was said to have charged that he still considered that Dave Goodwin owed him for the hat which he ruined in the shooting ( I think that Mr. Beasley was coming down the stairs of the courthouse when he saw Dave Goodwin and fell backwards on the stairs, leaving the hat in the line of sight).

I understand that John Henry Tabb came here from Mississippi with a group of neighbors late in his life (around 1890) and spent his last active years as a horse trader. He suffered a wound in the hip from the war that kept him from being physically strong enough to farm but he did craft a stone building on my grandfather's place with stones he quarried and cut and pieced together. It served as a hen house during my memory and might still be standing except we neglected it for enough years that it lost it's roof and fell in. He was also rattlesnake bitten during the time he lived with my grandparents but apparently survived that with no problems.

Source: E-mail from James Wesley Ammons (jjam79095@hotmail.com) dated 19 September 02. John was born at Yalobusha County, Mississippi, in 1840.^1,2 He married Frances A. Goodwin at Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, on 10 June 1866.^3,2 John died on 22 November 1909 at Collingsworth County, Texas.¹

     Frances was born at Mississippi in 1844.¹ She married John Henry Tabb at Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, on 10 June 1866.^2,3 Frances died in 1930 at Collingsworth County, Texas.¹

     Donie died at Collingsworth County, Texas.¹ Donie was born at Chickasaw County, Mississippi, in 1880.¹ She married John Wesley Ammons at Chickasaw County, Mississippi, on 5 August 1899.^1,2