**the following obituary abstract is from Selected Death Notices From Jackson County, Kansas Newspapers, Vol. V; compiled by Dan Fenton:
The Holton Recorder
February 22, 1900
Henry Decker was born in Hublersburg, Center county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1837, where he received his education in the common schools of the state, and where afterward he learned the cabinet maker's trade. November 11, 1869, he was married to Miss Eliza Crotsley, of Barton, Tioga county, N.Y., now his bereaved widow. In February, 1870, he moved to Kansas and located on a farm four and a half miles west of Circlevile, where engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and where he served several years as justice of the peace. About ten years ago he moved to Holton permanently to give his children the benefit of better opportunities for education .... In 1871, he joined the Methodist church at Circleville ... Many years ago Mr. Decker suffered an attack if pneumonia, which left him with a weak lung, and when this last attack came on his enfeebled system yielded to the fatal disease. Friday February 9, Mr. Decker came to town as usual, and while in Mr. H. W. Baney' s meat shop ordering meat he was suddenly attacked with a chill .... the sad death scene, which occurred on the evening of Wednesday, February 14. The deceased leaves a wife and three children two children having preceded the father to the land of spirits. The surviving children are, Ed., who lives at home, Charley, who for the past few years been living in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Della Howard, who lives in Leavenworth county....
The Holton Recorder
February 22, 1900
Henry Decker was born in Hublersburg, Center county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1837, where he received his education in the common schools of the state, and where afterward he learned the cabinet maker's trade. November 11, 1869, he was married to Miss Eliza Crotsley, of Barton, Tioga county, N.Y., now his bereaved widow. In February, 1870, he moved to Kansas and located on a farm four and a half miles west of Circlevile, where engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and where he served several years as justice of the peace. About ten years ago he moved to Holton permanently to give his children the benefit of better opportunities for education .... In 1871, he joined the Methodist church at Circleville ... Many years ago Mr. Decker suffered an attack if pneumonia, which left him with a weak lung, and when this last attack came on his enfeebled system yielded to the fatal disease. Friday February 9, Mr. Decker came to town as usual, and while in Mr. H. W. Baney' s meat shop ordering meat he was suddenly attacked with a chill .... the sad death scene, which occurred on the evening of Wednesday, February 14. The deceased leaves a wife and three children two children having preceded the father to the land of spirits. The surviving children are, Ed., who lives at home, Charley, who for the past few years been living in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Della Howard, who lives in Leavenworth county....
**the following obituary abstract is from Selected Death Notices From Jackson County, Kansas Newspapers, Vol. V; compiled by Dan Fenton:
The Holton Recorder
February 22, 1900
Henry Decker was born in Hublersburg, Center county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1837, where he received his education in the common schools of the state, and where afterward he learned the cabinet maker's trade. November 11, 1869, he was married to Miss Eliza Crotsley, of Barton, Tioga county, N.Y., now his bereaved widow. In February, 1870, he moved to Kansas and located on a farm four and a half miles west of Circlevile, where engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and where he served several years as justice of the peace. About ten years ago he moved to Holton permanently to give his children the benefit of better opportunities for education .... In 1871, he joined the Methodist church at Circleville ... Many years ago Mr. Decker suffered an attack if pneumonia, which left him with a weak lung, and when this last attack came on his enfeebled system yielded to the fatal disease. Friday February 9, Mr. Decker came to town as usual, and while in Mr. H. W. Baney' s meat shop ordering meat he was suddenly attacked with a chill .... the sad death scene, which occurred on the evening of Wednesday, February 14. The deceased leaves a wife and three children two children having preceded the father to the land of spirits. The surviving children are, Ed., who lives at home, Charley, who for the past few years been living in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Della Howard, who lives in Leavenworth county....
The Holton Recorder
February 22, 1900
Henry Decker was born in Hublersburg, Center county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1837, where he received his education in the common schools of the state, and where afterward he learned the cabinet maker's trade. November 11, 1869, he was married to Miss Eliza Crotsley, of Barton, Tioga county, N.Y., now his bereaved widow. In February, 1870, he moved to Kansas and located on a farm four and a half miles west of Circlevile, where engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and where he served several years as justice of the peace. About ten years ago he moved to Holton permanently to give his children the benefit of better opportunities for education .... In 1871, he joined the Methodist church at Circleville ... Many years ago Mr. Decker suffered an attack if pneumonia, which left him with a weak lung, and when this last attack came on his enfeebled system yielded to the fatal disease. Friday February 9, Mr. Decker came to town as usual, and while in Mr. H. W. Baney' s meat shop ordering meat he was suddenly attacked with a chill .... the sad death scene, which occurred on the evening of Wednesday, February 14. The deceased leaves a wife and three children two children having preceded the father to the land of spirits. The surviving children are, Ed., who lives at home, Charley, who for the past few years been living in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Della Howard, who lives in Leavenworth county....
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