NOTE: Norm's sister, Grace, named her 2nd son after him. That son, in turn, used the name Norman as the middle name for his eldest son and as the first name of his 2nd son.
MOTHER: Phebe Wass Emerson
FATHER: Andrew W. Tabbut
WIFE: Catherine "Kate" McDonough
m. 12 Jan 1889 Detroit Lakes, Becker, Minnesota
SONS
Fremont Leon Tabbut
Norman Peter Tabbut
Occupation: boat builder
1.) “Norman Ward Tabbutt died on February 21, 1895, when he was only 36 years of age while pumping water at the well. One would guess that he may have died of a heart attack that was connected to the earlier scarlet fever mentioned in a neighbors' diary shared by the Weston family with [Maurice Tabbutt].
The author of the diary, Grandma Weston, related that she and Martha Griffin (I assume she is the mother of W. Cary Griffin who was married to Norman’s and [Maurice’s] sister Hattie) “sat up down to Tabbuts after his death." She wrote of his funeral two days later, mentioning a large turnout.
He left his widow Catherine Kate McDonough Tabbut and his two sons, Fremont Leon age 6 and Norman Peter age 3.
His parents and brothers’ Herman and Maurice had moved away from the area some four years previous and we can see from the Weston diary that neighbors were of significant help to the family. We have no way to tell how much the 18-year-old Maurice and others of the family would have been able to help in this time of challenging travel conditions and with heavy responsibilities at home combining to make it difficult to provide the major support that would have been needed. Only four years later Catherine died in July of 1899. The orphans Fremont and Norman were soon taken to their grandparents’ home.”
Source: Alen Tabbut manuscript Pp218-223
2.) Norman was born to visionary parents. They so thoroughly believed in the church mission their pastor, George Adams, had developed that they sold all they had and emigrated to Palestine in 1866. They were going to help prepare the land for the homecoming of the Jewish people--the end of the Jewish Diaspora. After two thousand years, the Diaspora did indeed end--about 80 years after this small movement began to plan for it. Norman would have been about 8 when the families left Maine and about 11 when his family returned. The Ottoman Empire and conditions had not been very welcoming to the colony, and Norman had two siblings die there. Norman and his sister Generva ultimately sailed home from Liverpool to New York on the SS City of London with their father. He was sickly, so he left Phebe with the other children in Palestine and arrived on September 16, 1867. The rest of the family followed.
In 1879 He married Catherine "Kate" McDonough. The next year, on the 1880 Census, he is listed as a ship builder and they were living in Harrington, Maine.
Norman Ward's land deed was transferred to his widow, on November 12, 1900, in Crookston Township, Polk, Minnesota. That was the location for land deeds and records, yet his land was in Lake View Township, Becker County (MN), southeast of Nottage Lake, section 22.
In the 1900 Census, Norman and Kate's two children, Norman P. and Fremont Leon, were already listed as "adopted" by their paternal grandparents.
Whatever the family difficulties were, the results manifested in their children. Son Norman P. Tabbut married in midlife, yet died alone and childless. His brother, Fremont Leon Tabbut, joined the U.S. Marines when he was 16 and died as a merchant marine in battle at age 25. He fought with the Australian 7th Infantry Battalion during the famous WWI battle at Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey. He was the only American serving in that battle.
MOTHER: Phebe Wass Emerson
FATHER: Andrew W. Tabbut
WIFE: Catherine "Kate" McDonough
m. 12 Jan 1889 Detroit Lakes, Becker, Minnesota
SONS
Fremont Leon Tabbut
Norman Peter Tabbut
Occupation: boat builder
1.) “Norman Ward Tabbutt died on February 21, 1895, when he was only 36 years of age while pumping water at the well. One would guess that he may have died of a heart attack that was connected to the earlier scarlet fever mentioned in a neighbors' diary shared by the Weston family with [Maurice Tabbutt].
The author of the diary, Grandma Weston, related that she and Martha Griffin (I assume she is the mother of W. Cary Griffin who was married to Norman’s and [Maurice’s] sister Hattie) “sat up down to Tabbuts after his death." She wrote of his funeral two days later, mentioning a large turnout.
He left his widow Catherine Kate McDonough Tabbut and his two sons, Fremont Leon age 6 and Norman Peter age 3.
His parents and brothers’ Herman and Maurice had moved away from the area some four years previous and we can see from the Weston diary that neighbors were of significant help to the family. We have no way to tell how much the 18-year-old Maurice and others of the family would have been able to help in this time of challenging travel conditions and with heavy responsibilities at home combining to make it difficult to provide the major support that would have been needed. Only four years later Catherine died in July of 1899. The orphans Fremont and Norman were soon taken to their grandparents’ home.”
Source: Alen Tabbut manuscript Pp218-223
2.) Norman was born to visionary parents. They so thoroughly believed in the church mission their pastor, George Adams, had developed that they sold all they had and emigrated to Palestine in 1866. They were going to help prepare the land for the homecoming of the Jewish people--the end of the Jewish Diaspora. After two thousand years, the Diaspora did indeed end--about 80 years after this small movement began to plan for it. Norman would have been about 8 when the families left Maine and about 11 when his family returned. The Ottoman Empire and conditions had not been very welcoming to the colony, and Norman had two siblings die there. Norman and his sister Generva ultimately sailed home from Liverpool to New York on the SS City of London with their father. He was sickly, so he left Phebe with the other children in Palestine and arrived on September 16, 1867. The rest of the family followed.
In 1879 He married Catherine "Kate" McDonough. The next year, on the 1880 Census, he is listed as a ship builder and they were living in Harrington, Maine.
Norman Ward's land deed was transferred to his widow, on November 12, 1900, in Crookston Township, Polk, Minnesota. That was the location for land deeds and records, yet his land was in Lake View Township, Becker County (MN), southeast of Nottage Lake, section 22.
In the 1900 Census, Norman and Kate's two children, Norman P. and Fremont Leon, were already listed as "adopted" by their paternal grandparents.
Whatever the family difficulties were, the results manifested in their children. Son Norman P. Tabbut married in midlife, yet died alone and childless. His brother, Fremont Leon Tabbut, joined the U.S. Marines when he was 16 and died as a merchant marine in battle at age 25. He fought with the Australian 7th Infantry Battalion during the famous WWI battle at Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey. He was the only American serving in that battle.
NOTE: Norm's sister, Grace, named her 2nd son after him. That son, in turn, used the name Norman as the middle name for his eldest son and as the first name of his 2nd son.
MOTHER: Phebe Wass Emerson
FATHER: Andrew W. Tabbut
WIFE: Catherine "Kate" McDonough
m. 12 Jan 1889 Detroit Lakes, Becker, Minnesota
SONS
Fremont Leon Tabbut
Norman Peter Tabbut
Occupation: boat builder
1.) “Norman Ward Tabbutt died on February 21, 1895, when he was only 36 years of age while pumping water at the well. One would guess that he may have died of a heart attack that was connected to the earlier scarlet fever mentioned in a neighbors' diary shared by the Weston family with [Maurice Tabbutt].
The author of the diary, Grandma Weston, related that she and Martha Griffin (I assume she is the mother of W. Cary Griffin who was married to Norman’s and [Maurice’s] sister Hattie) “sat up down to Tabbuts after his death." She wrote of his funeral two days later, mentioning a large turnout.
He left his widow Catherine Kate McDonough Tabbut and his two sons, Fremont Leon age 6 and Norman Peter age 3.
His parents and brothers’ Herman and Maurice had moved away from the area some four years previous and we can see from the Weston diary that neighbors were of significant help to the family. We have no way to tell how much the 18-year-old Maurice and others of the family would have been able to help in this time of challenging travel conditions and with heavy responsibilities at home combining to make it difficult to provide the major support that would have been needed. Only four years later Catherine died in July of 1899. The orphans Fremont and Norman were soon taken to their grandparents’ home.”
Source: Alen Tabbut manuscript Pp218-223
2.) Norman was born to visionary parents. They so thoroughly believed in the church mission their pastor, George Adams, had developed that they sold all they had and emigrated to Palestine in 1866. They were going to help prepare the land for the homecoming of the Jewish people--the end of the Jewish Diaspora. After two thousand years, the Diaspora did indeed end--about 80 years after this small movement began to plan for it. Norman would have been about 8 when the families left Maine and about 11 when his family returned. The Ottoman Empire and conditions had not been very welcoming to the colony, and Norman had two siblings die there. Norman and his sister Generva ultimately sailed home from Liverpool to New York on the SS City of London with their father. He was sickly, so he left Phebe with the other children in Palestine and arrived on September 16, 1867. The rest of the family followed.
In 1879 He married Catherine "Kate" McDonough. The next year, on the 1880 Census, he is listed as a ship builder and they were living in Harrington, Maine.
Norman Ward's land deed was transferred to his widow, on November 12, 1900, in Crookston Township, Polk, Minnesota. That was the location for land deeds and records, yet his land was in Lake View Township, Becker County (MN), southeast of Nottage Lake, section 22.
In the 1900 Census, Norman and Kate's two children, Norman P. and Fremont Leon, were already listed as "adopted" by their paternal grandparents.
Whatever the family difficulties were, the results manifested in their children. Son Norman P. Tabbut married in midlife, yet died alone and childless. His brother, Fremont Leon Tabbut, joined the U.S. Marines when he was 16 and died as a merchant marine in battle at age 25. He fought with the Australian 7th Infantry Battalion during the famous WWI battle at Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey. He was the only American serving in that battle.
MOTHER: Phebe Wass Emerson
FATHER: Andrew W. Tabbut
WIFE: Catherine "Kate" McDonough
m. 12 Jan 1889 Detroit Lakes, Becker, Minnesota
SONS
Fremont Leon Tabbut
Norman Peter Tabbut
Occupation: boat builder
1.) “Norman Ward Tabbutt died on February 21, 1895, when he was only 36 years of age while pumping water at the well. One would guess that he may have died of a heart attack that was connected to the earlier scarlet fever mentioned in a neighbors' diary shared by the Weston family with [Maurice Tabbutt].
The author of the diary, Grandma Weston, related that she and Martha Griffin (I assume she is the mother of W. Cary Griffin who was married to Norman’s and [Maurice’s] sister Hattie) “sat up down to Tabbuts after his death." She wrote of his funeral two days later, mentioning a large turnout.
He left his widow Catherine Kate McDonough Tabbut and his two sons, Fremont Leon age 6 and Norman Peter age 3.
His parents and brothers’ Herman and Maurice had moved away from the area some four years previous and we can see from the Weston diary that neighbors were of significant help to the family. We have no way to tell how much the 18-year-old Maurice and others of the family would have been able to help in this time of challenging travel conditions and with heavy responsibilities at home combining to make it difficult to provide the major support that would have been needed. Only four years later Catherine died in July of 1899. The orphans Fremont and Norman were soon taken to their grandparents’ home.”
Source: Alen Tabbut manuscript Pp218-223
2.) Norman was born to visionary parents. They so thoroughly believed in the church mission their pastor, George Adams, had developed that they sold all they had and emigrated to Palestine in 1866. They were going to help prepare the land for the homecoming of the Jewish people--the end of the Jewish Diaspora. After two thousand years, the Diaspora did indeed end--about 80 years after this small movement began to plan for it. Norman would have been about 8 when the families left Maine and about 11 when his family returned. The Ottoman Empire and conditions had not been very welcoming to the colony, and Norman had two siblings die there. Norman and his sister Generva ultimately sailed home from Liverpool to New York on the SS City of London with their father. He was sickly, so he left Phebe with the other children in Palestine and arrived on September 16, 1867. The rest of the family followed.
In 1879 He married Catherine "Kate" McDonough. The next year, on the 1880 Census, he is listed as a ship builder and they were living in Harrington, Maine.
Norman Ward's land deed was transferred to his widow, on November 12, 1900, in Crookston Township, Polk, Minnesota. That was the location for land deeds and records, yet his land was in Lake View Township, Becker County (MN), southeast of Nottage Lake, section 22.
In the 1900 Census, Norman and Kate's two children, Norman P. and Fremont Leon, were already listed as "adopted" by their paternal grandparents.
Whatever the family difficulties were, the results manifested in their children. Son Norman P. Tabbut married in midlife, yet died alone and childless. His brother, Fremont Leon Tabbut, joined the U.S. Marines when he was 16 and died as a merchant marine in battle at age 25. He fought with the Australian 7th Infantry Battalion during the famous WWI battle at Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey. He was the only American serving in that battle.
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