Isaac and Harriet Decker |
Family tradition says that Oliver’s and Hannah’s daughter Harriet Page Wheeler was a 17-year-old schoolteacher in 1820, when she married 20-year-old New York State farmer Isaac Decker, and they set up housekeeping in Phelps, Ontario County, New York, near her parents’ home in Farmington. |
While in Phelps from 1820 to 1827, the Deckers produced the first three of their half-dozen very distinguished
children:
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From 1827 to 1835, they lived in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York, where they added two more children:
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Finally, caboose son Isaac Perry came along in Illinois a decade later (1840).
Each of these became a significant pioneer of the American West, generating along the way many stories, ranging from heartwarming to horrifying. This one, from Clara’s early childhood, falls in the latter category: |
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