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."