Greene-Monroe County IN Archives Biographies.....Deckard, Michael 1832 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   MICHAEL DECKARD, druggist and distiller, was born in the year 1832, in Monroe
County, Ind., whither his parents had removed in 1818. He is one of two children
born to Michael and Christena (Hellenburg) Deckard, and being the son of
pioneers witnessed many hardships incident to pioneer life in which his parents
were engaged. On attaining his majority, he embarked on life's voyage on his own
responsibility, and since then has been engaged largely in mercantile pursuits.
His marriage with Miss Catharine Hilton was solemnized in 1857, and in 1861 he
became a private in the late war, serving through the battles of Resaca, Stone
River and Kenesaw Mountain, and being finally discharged as Corporal at the end
of three years. At the present writing (1883), he is located at Jonesboro
(Hobbieville P. O.), where he carries on the drug trade and manufactures about
2,000 gallons of pure peach and apple brandy yearly. Mr. Deckard is a
thoroughgoing business man, a Democrat in politics, and the father of six
children, only two—Blassie E. and Rosie E.—yet living.

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Center Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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