BOX CEMETERY

            Box Cemetery is a small family cemetery. It is indicated on the U.S.G.S. Parsons quadrangle (1986). The cemetery access road is opposite Sulpher Spring Church.

            David Donahue recorded Box Cemetery November 29, 1996 and checked and updated it in November 2003. Margarett Alexander recorded Box Cemetery on May 21, 1978. Her record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records published by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, p. 72. She noted "7 graves without names."

 

Box, April Michelle, Sept. 9, 1979-Mar. 20, 1980

Box, Archie, d. Sept. 25, 1886, "Aged 1 Yr 11 Ms" "Son of T. J. & L. Box"

Box, Christina Michaella, Sept. 10, 1986-Sept. 12, 1986, "Daughter" footstone

Box, Greg, 1962-2003, temporary marker, Parsons Mortuary, 5 yards east of marker for Loy M. Box

Box, Infant, d. Feb. 14, 1896, "Aged 4 days" "Infant dau. of T. J. & L. Box"

Box, Louisa, 1864-1933

Box, Loy M., Apr. 4, 1897-July 4, 1972

Box, M. L., d. Sept. 21, 1885, "Aged 3 Ys, 5 Ms" "Dau. of T. J. & L. Box"

Box, Mary, d. Jan. 14, 1903, "Aged 76 ys, 1 mo, 11 ds"

Box, Roy "Wid,", Nov. 12, 1899-Mar. 5, 1985
Box, Arvine K., Mar. 18, 1924-Mar. 8, 2001, "Married Jan. 7, 1942"

Box, T. J., d. Jan. 7, 1914, "Aged 59 Ys, 9 Ms, 22 Ds" "Husband of L. J. Box"

Brown, Althea Elizabeth, Jan. 27, 1907-Jan. 11, 1963

Brown, Robert Emmitt, Oct. 18, 1895-Sept. 3, 1976, military marker "Cpl US Marine Corps World War I"

Hayes, Carvel, May 2, 1916-Dec. 29, 1970

Melton, ______,"1 Yr. Boy", 1937-1938 (homemade) [similar to markers for "unknown"; Alexander listed name as Jr. Box]

Morgan, Bonnie E., Nov. 1, 1910-Oct. 25, 1911, "Dau. of J. K. & Birtha Morgan"

Morgan, J. K., Oct. 16, 1889-Apr. 19, 1924. "M.W.A." [Modern Woodmen of America]

Morgan, Ottie G., Nov. 20, 1917-Aug. 14, 1918, "Dau. of J. K. & Birtha Morgan"

Scates, Isaac C., Feb. 8, 1865-June 23, 1946

 

Eight graves are marked with concrete blocks onto which have been painted "Unknown by C.J.B."

 

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