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."
Sarah married Larkin M. Dendy on 8 December 8 1849, in Cherokee
County, Texas. They had
three children. Ophelia, born in 1850, was named after the ship that
brought her father to Texas.
In 1872, Ophelia married Charlie W. King and they had eight children.
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
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