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Isaac Decker

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SPOUSE: HARRIET PAGE WHEELER
Marriage: 1820
Place: Phelps, Ontario, New York

SPOUSE: (2)Maria Louisa Roberts -29 Jan 1846
SPOUSE: (3)Delight Day -before 1850
SPOUSE: (4)Fanny Eliza Greene -29 Jan 1846
SPOUSE: (5)Mary Cannon -20 Apr 1856
SPOUSE: (6)Hannah Herbert -15 Feb 1857
SPOUSE: (7)Sarah S. Collins -bef Mar 1857
SPOUSE: (8)Anne Lucas -31 May 1857



Birth Date: 29 November 1799
Birth Place: Tyconic, Columbia, New York
Death Date: 13 June 1873
Burial:
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

CHILDREN
Lucy Ann Decker
Charles Franklin Decker
Harriet Amelia Decker

Clarissa Clara Decker
Fannie Maria Decker
Isaac Perry Decker
Ann Elizabeth Decker (w8)
Hannah Maria H. Decker(w6)
Albertine Decker (w7)
Don Albert Decker (w8)
Christina H. Decker (w6)
Alice Delina Decker (w7)
Lester Isaac Decker (w8)
James Henry Decker (w6)
Ella Eudora Decker (w8)
Julia Vilate Decker (w7)
James Isaac Decker (w6)
Luna Josephine Decker (w8)
Edwin Little Decker (w6)
Laura Decker (w8)
Louis Decker (w8)
Clara Lavina Decker (w8)
1822-1890
1824-1901
1826-1917
1828-1889
1830-1881
1840-1916
1858-
1858-1911
1859-
1859-
1860-1927
1860-1861
1861-1924
1861-
1862-1937
1862-
1863-1920
1864-1886
1865-1907
1866-1935
1868-1948
1873-1935



OCCUPATION(S):

FAMILY
Father: PETER DECKER
Mother: HANNAH SNOOK


SIBLINGS
Isaac Decker
Tunis Decker
Christina Decker
Polly Decker
Joseph Decker
Polly Decker
Lewis W. Decker
Fanny Decker
Clarissa Decker
Hannah Decker
Charlotte Decker
Areathusa Decker
Marietta Decker




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From Sacred Places: New York and Pennsylvania, A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites, Lamar C. Berrett, General Editor, Deseret Book, 2000.

Freedom Township-(Isaac and Harriet Decker lived in Freedom from 18-- to 18--)

Freedom Township is the corner township in NE Cattaraugus County. It derives is name from the small village of Freedom, which had its origins in 1811.
The farms of Warren A. Cowdery and Heman Hyde adjoined one another in the township of Freedom. In 1830-31, Warren Cowdery received some proof sheets of the Book of Mormon from his brother, Oliver Cowdery, who was then supervising the printing of that manuscript at the E.B. Grandin Bookstore in Palmyra, NY. Warren in turn shared those sheets with his neighbor, Heman Hyde, and family. Both families subsequently embraced the gospel. (Journal of Willilam Hyde, p6).
William Hyde stated that the Prophet visited Freedom while on a recruiting mission for Zion's Camp. "Early in the year 1834 Joseph Smith and Parley P. Pratt came to my father's house," he said. "They preached two or three times in the neighborhood, and conversed much in private. Before they left [,] my oldest brother [Heman T. Hyde] was baptized [March 11, 1834] and went the same year to Missouri with Joseph Smith and many others in what was called the Zion's Camp." (Journal of William Hyde, p6, History of the Church 2:42-43).
Of the above incident Parley P. Pratt explained: "We baptized a young man named Heman Hyde; his parents were Presbyterians, and his mother, on account of the strength of her traditions thought we were wrong, and told me afterwards that she would much rather have follwed him to and earthly grave than to have seen him baptized. Soon afterwards, however, herself, her husband, and the rest of the family , with some thirty or forty others, were all baptized and organized into a branch of the Church- called the Freedom branch- from which nucleus the light spread and souls were gathered into the fold in all the regions round" (Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p 109-110).
Warren A. Cowdery was called to preside in Freedom and vicinity by the voice of the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith: "It is my will that my servant Warren A. Cowdery should be appointed and ordained a presiding high priest over my church, in the land of Freedom and the regions round about" (D&C 106:1)
On April 3-4, 1835, a conference was held at Freedom with Sidney Rigdon of the First Presidency of the Church presiding and Warren A. Cowdery performing the secretarial duties. There were 15 branches of the Church represented at the conference. As the respective branches reported their numbers, Heman Hyde responded with a count of 70 persons in the Freedom Branch (Messenger and Advocate vol 1, p 101-102)
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles assembled in Freedom on May 22-23, 1835, and held a conference for that district with Elder David W. Patten presiding. The Apostles were on what has been termed "the first mission of the Twelve" in this dispensation, holding conferences in predesignated localities in New York, Canada, and New England, from May to October 1835. The Freedom Conference was the second on their itinerary (History of the Church 2:222-25, Church Chronology p 11).
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Wife number 4, Fanny Eliza Greene is the niece of Lorenzo Dow Young. At the death of his mother in 1815, Lorenzo who was then nine years old went to live with his sister, Rhoda and her husband, John P. Greene.A Fanny Eliza was much more than a niece, she was more like a sister, having been raised in the same household as Lorenzo.

 REFERENCES:


A   Mothers of the Prophets
by Leonard J. Arrington, Susan Arrington Madsen, and Emily Madsen Jones, [Bookcraft: Salt Lake City, 2001] p. 38