tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post5020578811170560006..comments2024-03-09T19:25:00.801-07:00Comments on clmroots: Thomas Box - Early Mormon Convert from Texasclmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947293222555990774noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-21030702010443985712023-06-10T09:09:41.351-06:002023-06-10T09:09:41.351-06:00Very detailed and thorough research on a branch of...Very detailed and thorough research on a branch of the Box family. Good job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-29107371124932658932019-10-03T12:58:35.780-06:002019-10-03T12:58:35.780-06:00Great story. I lived in the Four Corners area and...Great story. I lived in the Four Corners area and I am familiar with Farmington, LaPlata, Cortez, and McElmo Canyon. Would love to search out and find where the Box family were living when they lived in the McElmo Canyon area. There might even be some old ruins of their homestead. Where did you find the Platte Lyman journal?<br />MattAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-86370071468001731232018-01-06T16:20:33.623-07:002018-01-06T16:20:33.623-07:00Interesting story about Thomas Box and his family ...Interesting story about Thomas Box and his family and their sojourn into Mormonism and Utah. It appears that none of his family stayed involved with the Mormons after Thomas and Clarkey died. What happened to the son, Thomas M Box. Did he leave behind any descendants?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-41539540947378773992016-03-01T10:08:51.011-07:002016-03-01T10:08:51.011-07:00Awesome post! I am a Box descendant and it has bee...Awesome post! I am a Box descendant and it has been very hard to find much information about the family, so it has been wonderful to happen across your blog post. Wish that descendants of some other Box ancestors would post information online somewhere. Very interesting that a Box ended up in Utah joining the Mormon church and then moving to New Mexico before he died. Who would have thought. <br />Keep up the good work.<br />Joan Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-4833255034747859842013-02-20T19:11:25.406-07:002013-02-20T19:11:25.406-07:00I"m not sure how to get hold of you so I'...I"m not sure how to get hold of you so I'll just leave a comment here. I found you because I just published a letter from my gg grandfather Stephen Sherwood. In February 1864 (about 149 years to the day), he was boarding at the home of Thomas Box in Salt Lake City. It would have been from that home, he wrote a letter to his family in Illinois. I just posted that letter TODAY on my blog. I believe it was there he also encountered an old mining friend, Jacob N.Vandermark. <br />The group went to the Panaca area in March of that year. I am posting the letters of Stephen Sherwood on my blog along with the history I am finding that surrounds those letters. Could you please contact me, if you would like more information on their trip. I have an excellent book that explains so much more about what was going on around Panaca.<br />I still can't believe I found your blog right as i was posting this. I just added some more information. Thomas box left one or two days later to go with him to Southern Utah. He said in the letter he would be leaving in a day or two. I have a book that tells more about all this.<br />Regards, Grant<br /><br />thestephensherwoodletters.blogspot.comGrant Davisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-27965661311086763422012-12-14T11:16:42.379-07:002012-12-14T11:16:42.379-07:00What interesting people. How many living descenda...What interesting people. How many living descendants do Thomas and Clarkey Box have? They need to have a reunion and share stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-87313264334655345852012-10-11T13:30:09.666-06:002012-10-11T13:30:09.666-06:00Amazing work! I married a descendent of Clarkey...Amazing work! I married a descendent of Clarkey's sister, Cecy Carpentar. Your research is impressive and I very much appreciate all the photos posted of the sources. Wonderful!Becky at "Cheese My Head"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17636835327299687567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-33794167084893015382012-08-31T15:11:24.939-06:002012-08-31T15:11:24.939-06:00Glad to have you use any information you need. Ve...Glad to have you use any information you need. Very interested in the Stevens family myself. <br />My husband descends from the Stevens of Holden, so you are probably related in some way.clmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947293222555990774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-57106199593664835152012-08-30T14:14:30.386-06:002012-08-30T14:14:30.386-06:00How interesting to find a tidbit on my ancestor, W...How interesting to find a tidbit on my ancestor, Walter Joshua Stevens. Thank you for all your work! The Box family history is very intersting. I'd like to include that tidbit about Grandma Box staying with the Stevens in the book I am writing for may family on the Stevens Family.Neciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668455069820664182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-46224884009883519622012-08-30T14:08:01.131-06:002012-08-30T14:08:01.131-06:00Very nice work! I am a descendant of Walter Joshua...Very nice work! I am a descendant of Walter Joshua Stevens. I find the information that your ancestor stayed with them very intersting. I'd like to add it to the history I am writing on the Stevens Family.Neciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668455069820664182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-33398353890497002052012-06-26T14:25:34.547-06:002012-06-26T14:25:34.547-06:00Thanks so much for all the hard work you have done...Thanks so much for all the hard work you have done on the Box family. I just love all of it. Even though, Thomas and Clarkey Box are not direct ancestors, I loved reading about them. They definitely had a different kind of life than they would have had back in Texas like the rest of the Box family. You should write a book about them. <br />Thanks, VickieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-56308158238152435752012-02-23T12:58:45.418-07:002012-02-23T12:58:45.418-07:00Great story. Thomas and Clarkey had a very interes...Great story. Thomas and Clarkey had a very interesting life. Agree with you -- wish that they had kept a journal or diary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-82557124973855826252011-10-01T00:08:45.572-06:002011-10-01T00:08:45.572-06:00You referred to a post on the son, William Box. W...You referred to a post on the son, William Box. Where is it? The link seems to be broken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-10208168930341112712011-07-08T23:53:48.962-06:002011-07-08T23:53:48.962-06:00I, too, am researching our ancestor, Peter Shirts,...I, too, am researching our ancestor, Peter Shirts, and his relationship with the Tom Box family. Please let me know if you have any more data on Mr. Shirts or his family.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />S. Jurgens<br />Gjurgens@aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-66288160610970258402011-06-03T18:12:34.794-06:002011-06-03T18:12:34.794-06:00Whatever happened to William Jefferson Box?Whatever happened to William Jefferson Box?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-6117566640953323592011-05-17T13:01:58.589-06:002011-05-17T13:01:58.589-06:00Thomas Box was the younger brother of my great, gr...Thomas Box was the younger brother of my great, great, great grandfather, James Francis Box (b. 1798 Tennessee, d. March 1860, Texas). <br /><br /><br />Thomas Box was born 8 August 1804 and died 17 March 1881 in Timbercrest, Knox, Tennessee. he died 17 March 1881 in Farmington, San Juan, New Mexico. James Box was married twice, first to Jemina Bob, or Babb, 1798-1826, and later to Elizabeth Matthew, 1809-1850. I'm a descendant of James Box's first wife since my great great grandfather was William Young Box, who married Nancy Jane Henderson.<br /><br />As you may have noticed, the Box and Henderson families became very interwined by marriage: <br />Thomas and James F's sister, Mary, married Hugh Henderson. Then James's children married Hendersons as well: Son William Young Box married Nancy Jane Henderson, both of whom are my great great grandparents, and Elizabeth Irene Box married John T. Henderson. Marrying your first cousin is not recommended, but then neither is trying to force your daughter (Josephine Box) to marry Brigham Young. Still, it helps decide where the family will spend Christmas dinner. <br /><br />None of the Boxes remaining in Texas stayed Mormon, but instead, most of the Boxes that married into the Henderson clan were most probably Presbyterian. William Young Box's son, James Joseph Box, who married Elizabeth Ellen Johnson, was most probably a member of the Disciples of Christ, or Christian Church, since his son, my maternal grandfather, David Eckley Box, promised his mother, Elizabeth Ellen Johnson Box, on her death bed that he wouldn't join another church. John Henderson and Nancy McLaurin most probably immigrated to the United States from Scotland in about 1795.<br /><br />Another thing this is striking about most of these Boxes--most of them died in their 50s or even younger.Evelyn Elaine Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466034246213747357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044584187344601499.post-67186589691738541292011-05-09T15:02:01.531-06:002011-05-09T15:02:01.531-06:00Hello!
I was wondering if you may have any additi...Hello!<br /><br />I was wondering if you may have any additional information on Tom Box. He appears to have had a close relationship with one of my ancestors, Peter Shirts. I appreciate the information you have shared. I will include my contact information below as I am unfamiliar with blogging and how this may or may not work to contact you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com