Mrs. Grace Agnes Decker was born August 21, 1887, in Jasper County, Missouri. She died at the Mercy Hospital, Ft. Scott, Kansas, January 11, 1911.
Miss Grace Sparks when a mere child moved with her parents to Allen county, Kansas near Elsmore. Here she grew to womanhood. She was married on August the 8th, 1909, to Mr. John A. Decker, of Allen county, Kansas. Mr. and Ms. Decker made their home in Gas City, Kansas for some months. They moved to Ft. Scott in the fall of 1910, where Mrs. Decker lived only a few weeks. Mrs. Decker was converted at the age of fourteen years and united with the M. E. church at Elsmore, Kansas. She was a young Christian woman, respected, esteemed, loved by all who knew her. She leaves her husband, her two-weeks-old infant daughter, her father and mother, three brothers and one sister with a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure from this life.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mr. M. L. Decker, Iola, Kansas, Friday afternoon, January the 13th, 1911, conducted by Rev. W. H. Owen, pastor of the First Baptist church, after which the remains of Mrs. Grace A. Decker was lovingly laid to rest in the Iola cemetery.
Source: The Iola Register (Iola, Kansas)
~14 Jan 1911 page 4 column 7
FAG contributor Good Oman
Miss Grace Sparks when a mere child moved with her parents to Allen county, Kansas near Elsmore. Here she grew to womanhood. She was married on August the 8th, 1909, to Mr. John A. Decker, of Allen county, Kansas. Mr. and Ms. Decker made their home in Gas City, Kansas for some months. They moved to Ft. Scott in the fall of 1910, where Mrs. Decker lived only a few weeks. Mrs. Decker was converted at the age of fourteen years and united with the M. E. church at Elsmore, Kansas. She was a young Christian woman, respected, esteemed, loved by all who knew her. She leaves her husband, her two-weeks-old infant daughter, her father and mother, three brothers and one sister with a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure from this life.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mr. M. L. Decker, Iola, Kansas, Friday afternoon, January the 13th, 1911, conducted by Rev. W. H. Owen, pastor of the First Baptist church, after which the remains of Mrs. Grace A. Decker was lovingly laid to rest in the Iola cemetery.
Source: The Iola Register (Iola, Kansas)
~14 Jan 1911 page 4 column 7
FAG contributor Good Oman
Mrs. Grace Agnes Decker was born August 21, 1887, in Jasper County, Missouri. She died at the Mercy Hospital, Ft. Scott, Kansas, January 11, 1911.
Miss Grace Sparks when a mere child moved with her parents to Allen county, Kansas near Elsmore. Here she grew to womanhood. She was married on August the 8th, 1909, to Mr. John A. Decker, of Allen county, Kansas. Mr. and Ms. Decker made their home in Gas City, Kansas for some months. They moved to Ft. Scott in the fall of 1910, where Mrs. Decker lived only a few weeks. Mrs. Decker was converted at the age of fourteen years and united with the M. E. church at Elsmore, Kansas. She was a young Christian woman, respected, esteemed, loved by all who knew her. She leaves her husband, her two-weeks-old infant daughter, her father and mother, three brothers and one sister with a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure from this life.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mr. M. L. Decker, Iola, Kansas, Friday afternoon, January the 13th, 1911, conducted by Rev. W. H. Owen, pastor of the First Baptist church, after which the remains of Mrs. Grace A. Decker was lovingly laid to rest in the Iola cemetery.
Source: The Iola Register (Iola, Kansas)
~14 Jan 1911 page 4 column 7
FAG contributor Good Oman
Miss Grace Sparks when a mere child moved with her parents to Allen county, Kansas near Elsmore. Here she grew to womanhood. She was married on August the 8th, 1909, to Mr. John A. Decker, of Allen county, Kansas. Mr. and Ms. Decker made their home in Gas City, Kansas for some months. They moved to Ft. Scott in the fall of 1910, where Mrs. Decker lived only a few weeks. Mrs. Decker was converted at the age of fourteen years and united with the M. E. church at Elsmore, Kansas. She was a young Christian woman, respected, esteemed, loved by all who knew her. She leaves her husband, her two-weeks-old infant daughter, her father and mother, three brothers and one sister with a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure from this life.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mr. M. L. Decker, Iola, Kansas, Friday afternoon, January the 13th, 1911, conducted by Rev. W. H. Owen, pastor of the First Baptist church, after which the remains of Mrs. Grace A. Decker was lovingly laid to rest in the Iola cemetery.
Source: The Iola Register (Iola, Kansas)
~14 Jan 1911 page 4 column 7
FAG contributor Good Oman
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