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/GaB.2ACI/11828 Message Board Post: Hello all, I just received "Standard Certificate of Death" for "James M. Decker "b. March 16,1853, son of "Daniel J. Decker" b. about 1826. Here's what it says:His full name: James Marion Decker born: March 16, 1853birthplace: Walnut Ridge, ARK.died: Feb.24,1938buried: (Old)Cache cemetery,(Haskell Co.) OK wife: Amanda Decker ( I now have hers also) (Amanda Agnes (McBride) Decker) she's buried at Old Cache cemetery also. NOW HERE"S THE REAL KICKER:It say's his parents names.... Father: Daniel Decker,birthplace: MO. Mother's Maiden name: Mary Hearst, birthplace: MO. You see, it doesn't say a word about "Choate" or "Keltner" for mother's maiden name. Cheryl, Mildred or anyone else in the group , have you tried to get a copy of James M. Decker's brothers or sister's death certificates? I wonder if it list the names of their parents the same as this one. I might try doing that next, if no one else has done that yet. I know that James M. Decker's sister "Jane" married "Peter Cosne! r" and lived in LeFlore county, and that they had something to do with the first Post Office. I'm told that Daniel J.Decker, their father lived in Heavner,LeFlore county, before the family moved to Haskell County,OK in the "Choctaw Nation". Pease write back, it's been a long time since I had time to work on this line. I will try to scan these death cert's soon, if anyone wants a copy. Warmest regards,Teri -aka (mrskingbob)Theresa Fayette (Decker) de Crooy "The Decker Clan of Haskell County, OK" P.S. I was not real surprised that James M. Decker's middle initial stands for "Marion", because it also is the middle name of my second born brother, Marty Marion Decker. I just had a feeling that it would be, my mother always said that my father had insisted on picking our middle names because of some family tradition.