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5 December 1872 From a letter written by Isaac’s daughter Fannie Decker Little to her husband Feramorz Little, then in Paris: “ Brother Charles just got a letter from father, and started over to Provo valley to see him. He is suffering very much, and wanted Charles to come as soon as possible. He intends to bring father in if he is able to come and wishes to.” (25), p 84
12 December 1872 Fannie Decker Little to Feramorz Little: “ My brother, Charles, has been over to Provo valley to see father and found him suffering very much. His face is eat through to the bone, he thinks. It pains him so bad that he cannot sleep for two or three days at a time. Then he takes opium, has a little rest and then feels worse than ever. His jaws are so stiff that he can scarcely open his mouth wide enough to eat, and he has an appetite for victuals he cannot eat. He was not able to come over with Charles. Since his return I have sent father some cider, apples, and fresh fruit.” (25) p 88)
13 June 1873 1873 - Died 13 Jun 1873 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. (1) *FILE*-14728; Family Group Sheet-Self; (3) p. 842
1873 1873 - Buried Salt Lake City Cemetery, Plot E Block 13, Lot 12, without a (surviving) gravestone. But this is where we came in… (11)
11 November 2006 Descendants and friends cooperated to erect a monument and to rededicate Isaac’s grave.
References:
(1) Historic Nauvoo Land and Records Research Center
(2) Carter, Kate. Our Pioneer Heritage (1958)
(3) Esshom, Frank. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. 1913
(4) Smith, Joseph. History of the Church.
(5) E. Watson, ed. (1968) Brigham Young History, 1801-44.
(6) High Priest Rec, Qrm orgnzd at Nauvoo, 1840, LDS Arc.
(7) Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register
(8) Utah Federal Census
(9) High Priest Qrm Rec, Orgnzd 23 Apr 1848, SLC, Utah, LDS Archives.
(10) Temple Index Bureau
(11) Salt Lake City Cemetery Records
(12) 1842 Tax Assessors Record, Personal Property, Hancock County
(13) Mormon Redress Petitions
(14) Backman & Cook eds. Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record (1985)
(15) Miles, Samuel, autobiography, typescript, LDS Archives
(16) Richards and Young families, Meeting, 1845, UG&HM 11:106
(17) Jessee, Dean C. The Papers of Joseph Smith
(18) Jenson, Biographical Encyclopedia
(19) Black, Membership of the Church
(20) Messenger and Advocate
(21) Far West Record
(22) Heart Throbs of the West
(23) Decker, Wayne. “Some Bits of History of the Decker Family”
(24) Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 14
(25) Little, James A. Biographical Sketch of Feramorz Little, written under the patronage of his family. Juvenile Instructor Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1890.
(26) Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868: 1850 Mormon Pioneers, Edward Hunter Company to Salt Lake, Utah.

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