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The following are the names of the Elders who
volunteered to go forth
into the vineyard this season … Isaac Decker … |
(21) p. 210 |
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Isaac was called on a mission during the Missouri mobbing. |
(4)Vol 3 p. 154 |
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“After the fall of that city [Far West] they fled to Quincy, Illinois…” |
(2)Vol 8 p. 175 |
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“…and next resided at
Winchester, Scott County, in that
state.” |
(2) Vol 8 p. 175 |
| 1839-40 |
The Lorenzo Young and Isaac Decker families continued to be
very closely associated. They farmed in Scott and Morgan counties
through 1839-40. It was here in Winchester, Scott, Illinois that
my grandfather Isaac Perry Decker was born. Nauvoo had now
definitely become the rallying place of the Saints. Isaac headed
out in the Fall of 1840 stopping over in Warsaw for the winter
and arrived in Nauvoo in 1841. Lorenzo spent the summer of 1841,
in Warsaw and in the Spring of 1842 he moved to Macedonia and
bought a house about four miles from the town of Carthage. |
(23) |
| 18 Jan 1840 |
Isaac deposes that he moved from Ohio to Daviess County,
Missouri, in March, 1838; purchased land for $250; raised 7 acres
of corn and also Garden Vegetables worth $25; that a mob came 28
October 1838, took everything, and expelled them from the State.
Came to Illinois January 1839, bereft of all property. |
(13) Sworn to before E. Sells, J.P., Scott
County, Iowa, 18 Jan 1840 |
| 7 Aug 1840 |
Son Isaac Perry born 7 August 1840 Winchester, Scott,
Illinois. |
(3) p. 842 |
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“There Harriet’s son, Isaac Perry, was born.” |
(2) Vol 8 p. 175 |
| 1841 |
I, Richard Bentley…was born
in…England, on October 1, 1820…we…landed
safely in New Orleans about the first ofNovember, 1841.
Next day we took the steamboat for Nauvoo. At Warshaw [sic], 18
miles below Nauvoo, we were met by Apostle Willard Richards, who
read to us an epistle from the Prophet Joseph Smith, counseling
the Saints to disembarkat Warsaw and
commence to build a city which was laid out a short distance
below. The company landed from the boat in a heavy snowstorm, and
took shelter in an empty building that had been used for a hotel
and held meetingthat evening. Brother Willard Richards spoke in
regard to the design in building the city, and showed a plan of
the same. The price of lots was from one to five thousand dollars.
Next morning…
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(2, pp. 173-77) |
