I question the dates in the message from Tina Williams that there were English-speaking Decker ancestors in Oregon in 1831. Oregon became part of the United States in 1846, by treaty with Great Britain. Previously, the treaty of 1818 permitted "joint occupation" by USA and Britain of the Oregon territory. According to my Encyclopaedia Brittanica, before 1829 the Hudson's Bay Company built Fort Vancouver on the site of present Vancouver, Washington, on the Columbia River opposite the mouth of the Willamette River. IN 1829, the Company built another post at the falls of the Willamette on the site or the present Oregon City, OR. After this, American colonists came to the Willamette Valley, and retired employees of the Company, mostly French Canadians, were settled there by 1835. By 1840 there were 151 Americans in Oregon. The first immigrant train over the Oregon Trail came in 1842, and the "Great Migration" over the Oregon Trail began the following year. The people of Oregon voted for statehood in 1857 and it was granted by Congress in 1859. Tina Williams' message states that her ancestors were in "Worden, Klamath". I cannot find Worden in my atlas, but Klamath County, around the city of Klamath Falls, is on the California border in Southern Oregon. I have not researched this, but I recall reading that many settlers of Southern Oregon came north from California after the 1849 California Gold Rush. Klamath County is east of the Cascade Mountains, and is colder, higher in elevation, and less attractive for agriculture than is the Willamette Valley. My guess is that the William Decker mentioned by Tina Williams may have been born in 1831, but not in Oregon. He might have gone to California in 1849 (at age 18) and he and his wife may have moved to Oregon by 1857 when their daughter Ellenor was said to have been born. Or they might have migrated to Oregon over the Oregon Trail after the Willamette Valley had been settled by Americans, and then moved on to th Klamath area. I have no Decker ancestors or relatives in Oregon. My earliest known ancestor was Isaac Decker, born about 1785, probably in New Jersey or New York (perhaps in Sussex County, NJ), married Hannah McCollum (died 1820), moved to Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio about 1817, later married Jane Todd Wilgus, died about 1834, possibly in Meigs County, Ohio. I and others still seek information on the ancestors of this Isaac Decker and his two wives.