Hi Jo, Apparently someone else was also curious because in Vol. 6 of the Index to Taney Co. Cemeteries compiled by Janice Looney, there is a notation after the names of Hubert, Nancy, Jessie & Johnny who died 11 Mar 1920 and were buried in Branson Cemeterythat their deaths were due to the Melva tornado. Don Houk E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Josephine or Peter Dunne [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: BOX FAMILY MYSTERY Every time I get into a project on cemeteries or censuses or anything to do with old records for that matter I come across at least one mystery. The Taney County cemeteries list is no exception. I received my section of pages from Vonda a few days ago. On page 58 there is a family named Box. The name is not one I am familar with. There is a total of 8 of them in Branson Cemetery. Their first names are Georgie, Hubert, Jessie, Johnny, Mearl, Nancy, Oleta and William. Here is the mystery---all of them except one died on 11 March, 1920. The last one, William Box died in 1959. Why did all these people die on the same day? Was it a house fire, a car accident, a flood, a tornado, or some other disaster? Since they were the only ones with the surname Box I had the terrible thought that perhaps William Box was the only one in his family to survive. If that was the case it must have been a heavy burden for him to carry for the next 39 years that he lived. Does anyone know what happened to the Box family? Are there any old newspaper archives in the Branson area that might have the story? It sure would be interesting to know what happened to cause this family to perish on that March day in Taney County. Jo ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== ============================== Check out RootsWeb's new threaded archives! http://archiver.rootsweb.com/