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the leadership of the Church, that Joseph Smith was not a prophet. And so they simply apostatized. Fifteen per cent of the community of the Saints at that time apostatized.

If anybody had an excuse to apostatize, it was our Isaac. 'Cause he lost everything. In fact, he didn't even have enough money to get to Missouri. Lorenzo Dow Young, a good friend of his, gave him a wagon and team so he could go to Missouri, because of everything he lost. When he got to Missouri, he couldn't afford to buy a house; so he had to rent. But he started to build up a little opportunity there. He was a loyal man.

During that time, there was a couple of things that happened. One, he got kidnapped. He was taken prisoner, for better than a week. His daughter said, 		after he came back, he was unhurt, he was well treated, because he had such a good personality and was such a friend to everybody.

And in addition to that, he was also in the battle of Crooked River, when Patten got killed. He answered a call to go on a mission. He never went on the mission, because he got kicked out of Missouri, before he could leave.

He got into Illinois, and in Illinois, his last son was born, and that was my great-grandfather, and that was Isaac Perry Decker. And then for some crazy reason, Harriet and Isaac got a divorce. Don't know anything about that, or figured it out. There's lots of rumors, but haven't been able to verify any of them. And then Harriet went on to great and noble things as the first woman to cross the plains with the early Saints.

Isaac, on the other hand, was the presiding elder in Warsaw, which is kind of interesting, because Warsaw was the hotbed of the anti-Mormon philosophy. Finally, they said, "Come on into Nauvoo," and he did. He owned property in Nauvoo. And then we have about three years. The last thing we hear about him in Nauvoo was when he got married, twice, to two women, in the Nauvoo Temple, before the Temple cleared out. One was Fanny Eliza Green; she was the woman that seemed to stay with him. Fanny Eliza Green.

And Isaac came to Utah in 1850. There, we don't have...Isaac never wrote much. You know, he didn't write a word, except the only thing we have evidence he wrote was the grievance petition, when he got kicked out of Missouri. Other than that, it's the only record we have of him writing. Anyway, when he got into Salt Lake, he didn’t have very much. But then, by 1861, he had a ranch out in West Jordan. And this was kind of interesting. What did he have? I can’t remember. He had about fifty-three cattle. He had about a
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