 Pottsboro, Texas The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, January 15, 1888 DIED At her home, south of Denison, on Tuesday, January 10, 1888, Mrs. Bettie Mayo Decker, wife of Wm. H. Decker, Sr., departed this life aged 48 years. Deceased was born near Columbus, Mississippi, was reared in Howeville, Kentucky, married in Owensboro, Kentucky, and moved to Texas in 1888. She was a communicant in the Methodist church and until stricken with her malady was active in Sunday School work. Though never blessed with children of her own she dearly loved the little ones and delighted in their company, and all of those that ever knew here were strongly attached to her. For many years with great patience and wonderful courage and almost miraculous cheerfulness she suffered from an ovarian tumor which caused her death. She died in peace and in hope of the eternal life, vouched safe to all who die in Christ.  Dallas Morning News 27 July 1907 WILLIAM H. DECKER SR. DIES Pioneer of Grayson County Lived in Youth Two Miles from Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace (Special to The News) Denison, Tex., July 26 - William H. Decker Sr., aged 83 years, a pioneer resident of Grayson County, died at his home eight miles west of this city at 2 o'clock this morning, general debility and an attack of rheumatism being the causes of his demise. The funeral services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at Enterprise Cemetery, near Pottsboro. Mr. Decker was born in La Rue County, Kentucky, near the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, the two old homesteads being only two miles apart. He came to Grayson County twenty-seven years ago and had resided here continuously ever since. Mr. Decker is survived by two sons and six daughters, as follows: Col. N.H.L. Decker of Denison; and William H. Decker Jr. of Pottsboro; Mrs. Martha F. Graham of Owensboro, Ky.; Mrs. Emma Buchanan and Mrs. Elizabeth Hite of Pottsboro; and Mrs. Dixie V. Wilson, who lives just south of Denison. Mr. Decker was a Master Mason and a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Enterprise Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |