Biography of William T. Box - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 48

Rev. William T. Box, Missionary Baptist minister at Morrilton, was born in Dade
County, Missouri, April 5, 1840; his parents were Thomas and Margaret (Choan)
Box. Thomas Box was a son of the very earliest pioneers to Tennessee, and was
born in that State October 13, 1799; he was reared on a farm and followed the
occupation of a farmer all his life. He was taken to Kentucky by his parents
when a boy, and resided in that State till his twenty-fifth year, when he went
to Illinois and settled in Davidson County. He married in about 1829, and the
fruits of that union were nine children, five sons and four daughters, of whom
three sons and one daughter are now living. William T., the subject of this
sketch, Harrison, Lewis and Eliza, wife of John Sherley, now living in Logan
County, this State. Father emigrated from Illincis to Arkansas in 1857, and
settled in Scott County, and later came to Conway County, where he died October
15, 1880. His had been the life of a pioneer, pushing on to the frontier of new
settlements. He opened his eyes in this world on the last year of the last
century, and lived till the present had nearly run its course. He was a soldier
in the Indian war, but did more to subdue the wilderness than those savage men.
At the time of his death he had been for many years a member of the Baptist
Church. His excellent wife was a native of Illinois, and died in Missouri in
1847. Our subject was united in marriage November 17, 1861, to Miss Sarah E.
Perkins, daughter of James B, and Sarah (Buntin) Perkins; parents were natives
of Tennessee, where father was born February 2. 1817, and mother October 11th of
the same year. They were married in Carter County about 1835, and were the
parents of nine children, seven of whom are now living. To the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Box have been born ten children, four only now living; James H, Jennie,
Mettie M. and Willie M., living. and Mary A., Martha S., Thomas A., William J.
and Bertha, deceased. Mrs. Box's father emigrated from Tennessee to Missouri in
1857, and died in that State in 1869; her mother died November 12, 1886. They
were members of the Baptist Church. Our subject began his preparation for the
ministry in 1865, and was ordained in the Baptist Church in 1867. He was the
third pastor of the Missionary Baptist Church at Morrilton, and has since served
at Hope in Hempstead County, and at Prescott in Nevada County. He was recalled
to Morrilton in the spring of 1890. Mr. Box owns farm property in Conway County,
and has just completed a pleasant residence in Morrilton, which, occupied by his
intelligent and interesting family, is one of the happiest homes of that place.