This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hgR.2ACIB/1823.1 Message Board Post: Mary, I don't have anything beyond 1870 on Richard at this time. Here's what I do have. According to Downs, The Decker Family of Grayson County Kentucky, page 124, RICHARD M. DECKER was born @ 1856 s/o ISAAC D. DECKER SR & DEBORAH BLAIN. Deborah Blain was born about 1829, died 7 May 1860. She was the daughter of John and Catherine Blain. In the 1850 Grayson Co. KY census, Isaac & Debora, both listed as age 20, were living in the home of her mother, Catherine, who was listed as as age 45, head of household (James having died before then.) RICHARD M. DECKER in listed in 1860 GRAYSON COUNTY KY census FALLS OF ROUGH district, June 16 1860 as age 4, living in the home of his father Isaac Decker Senior (his mother Deborah had died the month before). Also living in the household was Dorcas Smith Decker, Richard's paternal grandmother. Don't have any info about his descendants. Ancestry: RICHARD M. DECKER was s/o ISAAC D. DECKER Sr s/o BARNETT DECKER s/o JOHN DECKER, Sr. s/o HENDRICK "HENRY" DECKER s/o HERMANUS DECKER s/o JAN GERRITSEN DECKER William T. Blain was born @ 1833 in KY s/o William Caldwell Blain & Sarah Chapman Herndon. He is listed in the 1850 Grayson Co. KY census, Falls of Rough area, living at home, age 17. He is not listed in the 1860 Grayson County census, so far as I can find. According to Historical Sketches and Family Histories of Grayson County, Kentucky, p. 184, published by the Grayson County Historical Society, 2002, William Caldwell Blain was the first of the Blain family to own land in Grayson Co. He was the son of James Blain. William C., Sarah, and six of their 10 children are buried in Eskridge Cemetery near Falls of Rough in Grayson County. William Caldwell Blain was born 9-15-1794 in South Carolina, died 6-29-1874. Sarah was born 1-28-1811 d/o Traverse & Nancy Nash (Eskridge) Herndon, died 10-4-1892. (Grayson County Kentucky Cemeteries, Volume 1, p.59 (publishe by the Grayson County Kentucky Historical Society.) According to "Historical Sketches" p.184, the Grayson County Blains were from South Carolina and both William Caldwell & his father James Blain enlisted in the Kentucky Army during the War of 1812 and after the war many of the Blain family remained in Kentucky. Based on her age (born @ 1805), Catherine Blain's husband James was probably the son of James Blain & brother of William Caldwell. IF this is correct, and it is only a guess, then Deborah and William T. Blain would be cousins. However, as I said, this is only a guess on my part. In the 1870 census, Richard was living with William T. Blain in Livermore, McLean Co. KY: Blain, William T. 38 farmer; wife Martha E. 31; John C. 7; James M. 5; Willie F. 3; Sallie 6 months; DECKER, Richard M. 14. Lowell Decker