This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hgR.2ACIB/1823.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for all the info on Richard Decker and Wm T Blain. Are you a descendant of Isaac Decker? Does the book, The Decker Family of Grayson County, Kentucky, give any sources for the information contained in it? Also the book - Historical Sketches and Family Histories of Grayson County, Kentucky - is there any information as to who wrote the various family histories in it? I agree that John Blain, father of Deborah Blain Decker, was quite possibly a brother of Wm Caldwell Blain. In fact, I have seen lists of the siblings of Wm Caldwell that include a John, but with no further information or any source. I would like to find something that shows that John, father of Deborah, and John, brother of Wm C, are one and the same John. That would answer some questions about the life of Richard Decker. I do have some information on Richard Decker (who was later known as Richard Blain ), his later life in Kansas and Oklahoma, that I would be glad to share. Does The Decker Family book have anything on the other children of Isaac and Deborah Decker (as listed in 1860 census)? In 1870 (when Richard Decker was living with the Wm T Blain family), a Marion Decker, 19, was living with the D W Blain family in Richland co Illinois. (D W Blain was a brother of Wm Caldwell Blain). In an 1868 letter that DW Blain writes to his brother, Wm C Blain, back in Ky, he includes a request to' tell Mr Decker that his boys are doing well.' Is there any clue as to why Isaac Decker apparently did not keep his boys from his first marriage to Deborah? (In 1870, he has remarried and has a whole new list of children). I would like to find what happened to them also, because, if John Blain is in fact a brother of Wm C Blain, these descendants of Deborah are Blain relatives and I would like to include them in our tree. Does the Decker book say where Deborah Blain Decker is buried? Thanks again for all the information. Mary Shackelton