William Elmo Tabb
| Rev. William Elmo Tabb | |||||||||
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| Born | 1903 | ||||||||
| Died | 1937 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Methodist Episcopal Congo Mission, Lusambo, Congo Belge, via Cape Town [A63] 16 Asmuns Hill, NW11 [1933] Ganta, M.E. Mission, via Monrovia, Liberia | ||||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||||
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1931.04.28 proposed by E.W. Smith, seconded by J.L. Myres
death noted in Report of the Council 1937-1938
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William Elmo Tabb was born on November 17, 1903 in Colquitt, Georgia to John L. Tabb and
Mintoria (Tarpley) Tabb. He died on October 29, 1937 at the age of 33. As a student at Emory
University, he was active in several organizations serving as president of the Georgia Student
Volunteer Union, representative to the Theological Conference at Detroit, and a member of the
Sledd Literary Society. After college, Tabb served in Liberia and Belgian Congo as a Methodist
missionary.
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Paine College. The African Artifacts Collection was donated by Mrs. Tabb, the wife of William Elmo Tabb, a
Methodist missionary to Africa. The collection was housed in Haygood Hall on the second and
fourth floors before the building was destroyed by fire in 1968. The original collection
consisted of approximately 1,500 pieces. Metal pieces survived the fire and were salvaged.
According to a statement made by Dr. Colin M. Turnbull, assistant curator of African Ethnology
at New York’s Museum of Natural History, “The academic value is inestimable.” Augusta
Herald, Thursday, December 21, 1961.
