Marriage and Family
George Boxley married Hannah in Fredericksburg, VA and they had 11 children together, some born after they left the South. While some were young adults when Boxley arrived in Indiana, the youngest among them were born in his years on the run. His youngest child became the first recorded death in the township: Benjamin Boxley was killed by a tree that fell on him during a severe thunderstorm.
After the death of his wife in 1853, George Boxley had deteriorating health. At some point he left his cabin to live with his son Caswell (1817–1891), a lawyer and schoolteacher. Caswell’s first wife died in 1858, and possibly his father came to live with him at that time. Caswell rapidly remarried, finding a second wife, Sarah Ann Kercheval, whom he married in 1859. He also purchased his father’s land then.
George Boxley died in 1865 and was buried in the cemetery of the town named after him.
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