Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Decker, M. E. (Mrs.) 1825 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  MRS. M. E. DECKER, Palestine, was born October 20, 1825, on La Motte Prairie.
She is a daughter of Lawson Linton, born in Virginia. He married Sarah Ensworth,
born in Pennsylvania. She was the mother of nine children. Mrs. Decker's father
came to this county at an early date, and she lived here till her sixth year,
when she went with her father to Parke County, Ind., where she was educated and
was joined in matrimony, February 5, 1846, to John E. Decker, born October 12,
1814, in Vincennes, Ind. He died December 12, 1866. He is the father of six
children, of whom the first two are by his first wife-Edward V., born July 16,
1837; Luke, born September 20, 1839; Rhoda A., born August 23, 1847: Isaac L.,
born July 4, 1850; Sarah Bell, born July 9, 1854; and one infant son who died.
Mrs Decker is a lady who is endowed with a great deal of sound sense; she is a
fond mother and a faithful Christian, being a member of the Methodist Church.
She returned after she was married to this county, where she lives in a fine,
comfortable home, which was built on one of her productive prairie farms. Mrs.
Decker's daughter, Sarah Bell, married W. T. Lisman, now dead; she is now
married to W. S. Apple, and is the mother of three children living-Charlie, John
E. and one infant girl that has not been named.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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