This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Deckard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4NB.2ACI/24.1 Message Board Post: No, Dorothy, I don't believe so. I just came across your question as I started looking for information on my paternal grandfather Joseph Deckard (I think his middle name was Earl) who was born 28 Apr 1888 in Kentucky. I know that he was in the White Sulphur Springs (MT) area in the WWI era and that would be the reason for his draft registration showing there. He was married to my paternal grandmother Eudora Coward Monroe (originally from KY) and was probably a ranch hand in the area. I understand that my grandmother was a cook for the County Poor Farm in WSS where a James Alfred (Al) Abney (from Nebraska) also worked. Joseph and Eudora (nicknamed Robert) divorced about 1918 when my father Gilbert Earl Deckard (1912-1991) was six years old. Al and Robert soon worked their way west to the Portland (OR) area before finally settling in 1922 in Fallbridge (renamed Wishram in 1926), Washington for the remainder of their lives where Al worked for the Spokane, Portland & Seatt! le Railway in the car repair department. Joseph acquired a mining claim half way between Pierce (ID) and St. Regis (MT) where he lived most of the rest of his life. My father discovered his whereabouts in the 1950s and we visited him on the mining claim a couple times. In the winter he would retreat to Lapwai (ID) where he cared for an old Nez Perce indian chief. Both my father and Joe had very distinctive Indian facial features. I a child I understood that Joe Deckard was either a half or quarter Cherokee and I am just now starting to try tracing that lineage.