Sarah Elizabeth Box was born in 1834 in Blount County, Alabama. Soon after her birth, Sarah made the journey to Texas with her parents, William S. and Milena Palmer Box. Sarah's father, uncles and her grandfather, John N. Box, received grants for land in what is now Cherokee and Houston Counties.  The family built a fort, named Fort Box, for protection from Indians.  William's land was seven miles from the fort, so he and Milena did not venture to move there until 1839.  When Indians were in the area the women and children would hide in the cellar of the fort and be as quiet as possible.  Once, an old setting hen made her nest in the corner of the cellar, and as they were hiding in there one day, a little girl got too close to the old hen.  She pecked her.  The child screamed, "Mama, I'm snake bit."

William Milton Dendy was born 18 December 18 1854 in Cherokee, County.  On 18 January 1877, in Johnson County, Texas, he married Cassie Parmer, daughter of William and Frances Parmer.  Their children were: Thomas Milton (1877), Leonora Cassie (1879), Dora Mebel Jones (1881), Frank Claud (1886), Stella Pearl Ragsdale (1888), Minnie May Stevenson (1892), Frances Elizabeth (1895), and Orin Parmer (1903).  William M. Dendy died Feb. 8, 1916.
 

John Thomas Dendy was born 21 December 1856.  He married Tennessee A. Ray on 14 August 1881.  They had ten children.  He died in 1941.

Sarah Elizabeth Box died before 1859.

 

Mary Anne Dendy Dunn, Descendant