2006—Grandpa Isaac, at last!
Back in the spring of 2001, I went looking for family graves in Salt Lake City Cemetery and learned that 3-Greats-Grandpa Isaac Decker lay there with no marker. As quickly as I could get to my computer, I spread this appeal to everybody I thought might care:
Family and friends--
I plan to give my Great-Great-Great-Grandpa Isaac Decker a gravestone.

If you share my desire to acknowledge Isaac’s memory and would like to be part of the project, I’ll welcome contributions. Non-deductible, alas. A suitable stone and its placement will cost about $2000. Barre granite, from Vermont. Pretty close to a symbolically-correct origin in upstate New York.

I can’t figure out why this job remains to be done, even today. Not only is this man our kin, but he was arguably a significant hero of the Mormon Pioneer era. He served with distinction through the foundational years in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He raised and supported family members who played central roles in the settlement of the Mountain West. By all accounts, he was a man of great charm, patience, faithfulness, diligence, and perseverance. I look forward to swapping yarns with him in the hereafter.

He’s been in the ground, uncelebrated, for 127 years.

I can’t imagine that this is right or proper. If you know differently, please enlighten me.
--Andy
Richard B. “Andy” Anderson
CoMMensa@Alum.MIT.edu
IsaacS
With a lot of help from a few cherished cousins and the contributions of several more, it took five years to raise the funds, but we finally gathered on the 11th of November, 2006, to dedicate Grandpa’s monument and to rededicate his grave.

The Deseret News kindly wrote up the event, and we recorded the proceedings. In case you care to hear the recording, you can download it here, if my Dropbox is still working when you read this. Otherwise, the audio file “Isaac Decker Rededication.wav” resides somewhere in my computer files. A transcription follows, and you can find the whole story in the Isaac Decker section in this collection.
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