Robert Bruce Tabb (August 10, 1833 - November 12, 1906)[1][2] was a doctor and state legislator in Virginia.
[3] He was born August 10, 1833, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, to John and Mary Anne Veale Tabb.
[6] He then started working as a doctor in Camden County, North Carolina[4] At the start of the American Civil War he enlisted with the Bourrough's cavalry battalion later joining the 15th Virginia Regiment and he was wounded and removed from active duty on November 10, 1862, but continued to serve as a doctor in the hospital.
[9] Tabb was offered the nomination to serve in the house of delegates again for Norfolk county in 1887 but declined due to "the force of circumstances, unnecessary to mention".
[12] He died November 12, 1906, after suffering a long illness at the house of his daughter Mrs Charles A. Stewart in Falls Church, Virginia.