When Daniel Renfro Box was born on 9 October 1821, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel Box, was 32 and his mother, Jemima Murphy, was 24. He married Parthenia McGee on 11 September 1838, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Jackson Township, Polk, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 14 January 1909, in Polk, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mitchell Campground Cemetery, Wishart, Polk, Missouri, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1835: Polk, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from various major and minor places called Box, including parishes named Box in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, Box Farm in Awre (Gloucestershire), Boxfield Farm in Hertfordshire (recorded as Boxe from 1086 to 1428), and Box Hill in Dorking, Surrey, all named with Old English, Middle English box ‘box-tree’. The surname may sometimes also be purely topographic, where the reference is solely to residence by a box-tree, not to a farm or hamlet so named.
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