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HARRIET DECKER HANKS, PROMINENT PIONEER,
HEARS CALL OF DEATH
Mrs. Harriet Decker Hanks, widow of Ephraim Hanks, died at the home of her daughters, Mrs. M. Hyde and Mrs. Clara Felt, on north Main street, at 6:20 a.m., Thursday, May 31.

Mrs. Hanks was the daughter of Isaac and Harriet Page Wheeler Decker. She was born March 13, 1826, in Phelps, Ontario county, New York. Her ancestors on her father’s side were Holland-Dutch and her mother came from the old Puritan stock of New England. They were sturdy, God-fearing people, true to the type of colonizers from the Old World.

At an early age in Mrs. Hanks’ life her family moved from Ontario to Cattaraugus county in New York. The family consisted of four girls, two sons and the father and mother. Isaac Decker was a farmer, one of the old school, through and energetic. It was in Cattaraugus county the gospel reached them and they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When the subject of this sketch was nine years old she was baptized. The members of the Decker family became intimately acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith and his family and in the years that followed Isaac Decker was the warm and stanch friend of Joseph Smith until the prophet and his brother were martyred.
Mrs. Hanks crossed the plains in 1847, arriving in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in October of that year. She was the widow at that time of Edwin S. Little and had one child. She was married in September 1848, to Ephriam K. Hanks, a member of the “Mormon” Battalion, who had returned from California. He was a man of great courage and faith. Eleven children were the result of their union, three of whom survive the mother; they are Mrs. Marcia A. Hyde, Mrs. Clara V. felt and Charles D. Hanks, all residents of Utah. She was the grandmother of 40 and had 120 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at the home of her granddaughter, Gertrude Felt Kimball, 338 A street at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 2. Interment will be in the city cemetery.
Deseret Evening News , Thursday May 31, 1917

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