Surnames: Tabor, Mortimer, Warton, Chase, Thomas, Guthrie

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wisconsin) 01/30/1941

Tabor, Lucy Arabella (3 Feb. 1866 - 21 Jan. 1941)

On Friday afternoon, internment of the body of Mrs. Lucy Tabor was made in the Abbotsford cemetery, beside the body of her husband who preceded her in death on May 1, 1936. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday at Valton where Mrs. Tabor died of a heart ailment at the home of her sister, Mrs. Della Mortimer, on January 21.

Lucy Arabella Warton was born at Fort Atkinson, Wis., Febraury 3, 1866, the eldest daughter of Eli and Ann Eliza Warton.

In the year 1870 she moved with her parents to Woodland township, Sauk county, Wisconsin, where she grew to womanhood. She was married to Nelson Garner Tabor on June 27, 1880.

To this union seven children were born, one of whom passed away in infancy. They made their home on a farm near Valton, Wis., until 1886 when they moved to Wyoming to take charge of a cattle ranch, remaining there three years. In 1891 they moved to Dorchester, Wis., where they lived for nearly twenty years, then they lived in Abbotsford for a few years. Their last home was in Rib Lake where they spent most of their summers at their cottage at Spirit Lake.

In October, Mrs. Tabor went to Valton where she planned to spend the winter with her sister. She was taken ill there in December and death came to her on January 21 at the age of 74 years, 11 months and 18 days.

She leaves to mourn her loss, six children, Mrs. F. W. Chase, Roseburg, Oregon, Ernest Tabor and Mrs. Paul Thomas, Rib Lake; Mrs. Taylor Guthrie, West Branch, Iowa; William R. Tabor, Chicago, Ill.; also twenty grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren; and her sister, Della Mortimer of Valton; as well as other relatives and a host of friends.