Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Deckert, Peter J. 1872 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

PETER J. DECKERT

[photo] The Home of Peter J. Deckert

THE life story of Peter J. Deckert of "Silver Medal Farm," three miles north of
Pawnee Rock if told in any other state or county would read like fiction. He was
born April 8, 1872, in Russian Poland, and his father died shortly afterwards.
In the spring of 1874 his mother was married to Peter H. Dirks now living in
Liberty township and with them he came to the United States and Barton County,
Kansas, in the spring of 1875. They at first were members of the Mennonite
Colony which settled near Dundee, but in 1877 the step-father purchased a home
near the western border of the county and it was there that young Peter grew to
manhood on the farm, and received his education in the schools of that district.
At an early age he learned the value of money and how to save it by passing
through the hard times that followed, or really only began in 1893 when he had.
reached the age of twenty-one. There had been hard periods previous to that time
but for four years there were almost complete crop failures and when in 1897 the
good crops came Mr. Deckert had learned the lesson that was necessary to make
him the practical farmer and prudent business man that he is today. Two good
crops enabled him to marry and purchase a quarter section of land and from that
date he began to accumulate and lay the foundation for his present prosperity.
Today he owns four hundred acres of the finest agricultural land in Pawnee Rock
township and he has it in the best possible state of cultivation. His home is a
three story frame with thirteen large airy rooms. It is well and modernly
furnished, beautifully painted and surrounded by a grass plot in which there are
set numerous trees, shrubs and plants. The barn is 30 by 46 and has a large hay
loft and stall for all stock in use on the farm. There is a good granary,
machinery shed and the other necessary outbuildings, and three good windmills.
There is also another two story, eight room tenant house with a good barn 40 by
60 with machine sheds and other buildings and this is occupied by his farm help.
In the front is a blue grass plot and a number of evergreens. Peter J. Deckert
and Miss Susan Ratzlaff of Pawnee Rock township were married November 9, 1893,
and they have been blessed with the following children: Lyndon, 12; Erben, 9;
Otto, 7; Albin, 4; Louise, 2, and Ivan, an infant of two months, at this writing.


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