one child not found by his first wife Margaret Frances:
Martha Ersaline Decell 11 Jan 1819-May 1912, married Joseph Sidney CW Magee 5 Nov 1836 in Liberty, Amite County, MS
and 1 child by second wife Rebecca East:
Melissa J Decell Sep 1846-9 Jan 1898, married Reuben Pickney Leach 30 Jan 1860 in Tensas Parish, La.

Sources: Information on Sweetwater Church and Cemetery provided by Debra McIntosh, College Archivist, J.B. Cain Archives of Mississippi Methodism, Millsaps-Wilson Library, Millsaps College (1701 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39210-1066) and extracted from website: http://www.dailyleader.com/2017/01/14/19th-century-church-rebounds/.

Thie Sweetwater United Methodist Church has two distinctions. It is the oldest Methodist congregation in Copiah County, Mississippi, and it had originally a charter from the legislature, granted by the fourteenth session of that body in November 1830. Only one other Methodist Church, namely the one at Port Gibson, still exists from a number chartered by the state.
Sweetwater Church was organized in 1824, when John Ira Ellis Byrd and Lewellen Leggett were pastors of the Claiborne Circuit. William Winans was then presiding elder of the Mississippi District. The first building was constructed of logs on the site of what is still known as Sweetwater Cemetery on the road from Barlow to Caseyville, a few miles from State Highway 20. The old Sweetwater Cemetery on John Hay Road in Copiah County is where three sets of my grandparents are buried; James Adeline Decell Harris, James John Decell, and George Jasper Decell. For thirty years, Sweetwater Church stood on this spot and served as the mother church of Methodism in southwestern Copiah and adjoining counties.
In the early 1850s, the log church was abandoned, and a new frame church was erected just across the Homochitto River in Lincoln County,
3.5 miles from the present community of Caseyville. The church remained there for more than thirty years.
By 1884, the members decided to move back to Copiah County in the community called Peetsville where a school had been established in 1883. They met in a school building until a church was built in 1887. Rev. William B. Hines was the Pastor at the time, and he and B.D. Godbold, Levin Gaskins and M.C. McKee were listed on the deed. Another cemetery was located across the road from the church.
The church underwent many upgrades, including the addition of electricity in the 1950s and a remodel that reduced the entrances from two to one. Two Sunday school rooms, new pews, stained glass windows and a new altar were installed. In the 1960s, hardwood floors were installed and an aisle carpet was added. The congregation purchased a new piano, and the air conditioning and heating was installed. They also added a new pulpit, a communion table, and the fellowship hall. The Rev. A.E. Howell did the bulk of the construction but was assisted by church members and friends. They also added an additional 12-by-40-foot space to the hall.
The current Pastor is the Rev. Mark Allen. According to a historical pamphlet on the church, "Those early fathers are all gone now, but the descendants and friends of those early Christians have continued to worship at Sweetwater and accepted their responsibilities in the community."
In January 2017, a tornado swept through Copiah and Lincoln counties, and the 130-year-old structure that housed Sweetwater United Methodist Church suffered foundational damage, which caused it to be declared a total loss. Pastor Allen stated that the building called a church is just a building, but the people are the church.
A check from the insurance company has helped get the new building started. They also sent some people to help members move the pews, organ and other furniture into the fellowship hall, where they are holding services in the interim. Members range in age from one to seventy years. and there are forty people in the congregation, with twenty of them under less than twenty years of age.