DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE - CEMETERIES - Box Cemetery
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Contributed by David Donahue
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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 this cemetery November 29, 
1996. An earlier record of this cemetery was made by Margarett Alexander 
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 notes "7 graves without names." This is referred to as the UDC 
transcription in notes below.


Box, April Michelle, 9/9/1979-3/20/1980 

Box, Archie, d. 9/25/1886, "Aged 1 Yr 11 Ms" "Son of T. J. & L. Box" 

Box, Christina Michaella, 9/10/1986-9/12/1986 

Box, Infant, d. 2/14/1896, "Aged 4 days" "Infant dau. of T. J. & L. Box" 

Box, Louisa, 1864-1933 

Box, Loy M., 4/4/1897-7/4/1972 

Box, M. L., d. 9/21/1885, "Aged 3 Ys, 5 Ms" "Dau. of T. J. & L. Box" 

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

Box, Roy "Wid,", 11/12/1899-3/5/1985\Box, Arvine K., 3/18/1924-____, 
"Married Jan. 7, 1942" 

Box, T. J., d. 1/7/1914, "Aged 59 Ys, 9 Ms, 22 Ds" "Husband of L. J. Box"

Brown, Althea Elizabeth, 1/27/1907-1/11/1963 

Brown, Robert Emmitt, 10/18/1895-9/3/1976, military marker "Cpl US Marine
Corps World War II"

Hays, Carvel, 5/2/1916-12/29/1970

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

Morgan, Bonnie E., 11/1/1910-10/25/1911, "Dau. of J. K. & Birtha Morgan" 

Morgan, J. K., 10/16/1889-4/19/1924. "W.M.A." [similar to Woodmen of the
World markers] 

Morgan, Ottie G., 11/20/1917-8/14/1918, "Dau. of J. K. & Birtha Morgan"

Scates, Isaac C., 2/8/1865-6/23/1946