Rededication Ceremony

for Isaac Decker’s Grave and new Monument Salt Lake City Cemetery, 11 November 2006, 10 AM

Richard B. “Andy” Anderson: Cousins! Friends! Neighbors! Gather close, because we don’t have any PA, and the wind’s comin’ up, and the rain; so we want to get started here. I was just telling some of the younger folks here about Isaac and his family hiding in the frozen weeds by the Des Moines River on the exodus from Missouri — terrible, scary story — which points out to some of us that if we get a little bit wet and a little bit cold we probably would be wimpy to complain about it. Welcome, everybody! Friends, neighbors ’Specially cousins and descendants of Isaac Decker. I’m Andy Anderson; I have the honor of starting this meeting. Let me start it by taking roll. Let’s go down through Isaac’s descendants and see who-all’s represented here. May I have by a show of hands everybody from his first-born, Lucy Ann Decker Seely Young? We’ve got quite a few hands coming up on that one. OK, how many…do we have any Charlie descendants here: Charles Franklin Decker. None of those? The next one was Harriet; I know we have a Harriet here…Yes, OK, these folks come through Harriet, who was Harriet Little and later Harriet Hanks. Then the next one was Clara: Vilate Clarissa Decker Young, Brigham’s third wife in polygamy. No? No Clara descendants. Then Fannie was the next-to-last; she married Feramorz Little…no, none of those. And I know we’re honored by lots and lots of Perry’s kids: Isaac Perry Decker, the little boy on the monument. Welcome, cousins! It’s a joy and a pleasure to meet with you, to get acquainted with you… Steve Nelson: Is there any one here from his other wives? Annie Eliza, or Delight Day or Sarah Collins or Annie Lucas or Hannah Herbert or Mary Cannon? No...guess not. Richard B. “Andy” Anderson:

We seem mostly to be either Lucy or Perry folks, yeah. I guess all I need to do is go down through the items on the program, there. Brent Anderson will lead us in a hymn which I hope is familiar to us all. If it isn’t, folks, with all

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