DECKER PRAIRIE, TEXAS. Decker Prairie, also known as Decker's or Deckers Prairie, is a dispersed rural community located on State Highway 249 about thirty miles northwest of Houston and seventeen miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County. Settlement in this area just north of Spring Creek and the Montgomery/Harris county line had begun in the 1830s. The community was named for settler Isaac Decker, whose land grant was surveyed in 1839. In the early 1860s a Confederate powder mill operated on nearby Spring Creek, but an explosion in late 1863 destroyed the mill and caused the deaths of three workers. Decker Prairie existed as a farming community in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the earliest marked grave in Decker's Prairie Cemetery dates to the 1870s. In the early 1900s a school operated in the area, and 1930s highway maps depicted the school and numerous dwellings. Apparently the school closed by the second half of the twentieth century. On May 26, 1968, residents erected a monument commemorating the site of the powder mill. By the 1980s Spring Creek Park at this site served the recreational needs of Decker Prairie. No population estimates were available in 1990 or 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Montgomery County Genealogical Society, Montgomery County History (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter, 1981).
Isaac Decker born 1795 in Canada from some of the early records. May have been born to Thomas Decker, a Loyalist to Great Britain during the American Revolution. In his own word in a Statement of Character, he sez that he was "a native of the Michigan Territory" and is "married with five children" and a man of the "Christian religion". He shows up in The State of Coahuila on March 17, 1835 as a Colonist with the Ben R Milam settlers. So in Spanish documents he was granted one league of Land in present day Milam County Texas. He was introduced to the Local Commissioner by R M Williamson, an agent of Ben Milam. This land of 640 acres is situated on Williamson Creek. And on the application is a short note about Value of Cargo and it was paid. Signed by Samuel May Williams. Due to the many Native Indian battles with the Settlers, Isaac up and moved to Montgomery County Texas. Here in another statement he sez that he "arrived in this country in 1834" and "a man of family and entitled to one Labor of Land". So he is awarded 177 acres at the rate of $3.50 per ever Labor of Irrigable land and $2.50 per ever Labor of Temporal or Arable land. The first for farming and the second for pasture. What a bargain? This land is North of Spring Creek and is present day "Decker Prairie". His home place was located on Old West Montgomery Road at the present [2003] address of 32941 Wright Road. The large Oak trees and the Black Walnut trees at this address is over 100 years old and may have been planted by Isaac.
He was a cobbler [shoe maker] and a Saddler according to tradition and used the tannic acid from the Red Oak leaves along Spring Creek to dye the leather Red. Isaac took the oath of amnesty in Houston Tx for his part in the Civil War. While he was too old to go to war, he did make saddles and harness for the Confederate soldiers horses. Pronounced "harses" here in Texas.
Isaac's birth place is unproven at this time [2000] and he could have been born in Pennsylvania and his father moved the family to Canada as Loyalist's and returned after the Revolutionary War and moved south to Texas, where you don't ask too many QUESTIONS...
Source Title: Records of Nellie Williams/Walker. Research by Billie Jean Barrow/Reome and
Source Title: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's
Note: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's-Deaths 1838 to 1900.
According to my research, Isaac Decker was considered to be a wealthy man in Montgomery County. Not only did he own a large amount of land, he also owned slaves.
Isaac Decker had at least 5 wives and at least 24 children! One of the five wives was Alcey (or Alice) Jane Alston with whom Isaac fathered John Decker. John Decker married Sarah C. Terrell, with whom John Hebert Decker was born.
John Hebert Decker married Effie Elizabeth Tiller who gave birth to Nelson Decker.
Nelson Ervin Decker married Dorris Lee Stearns with whom Sharon Kay Decker and Linda Lee Decker were born.
Sharon Kay Decker married Houston artist/sculptor Bobby Gerald Wilson and they had two sons, Scott David Wilson and Christoper Kevin Wilson.
Scott David married Genevieve Lynn Grissom and they had Jonathan Tyler Wilson, Ryan Bobby Wilson and Wade Thomas Wilson.
Christopher Kevin Wilson married Ann Marie Grissom (Genevieve's sister) and they had Joshua Caleb Wilson and Haley BreAnn Wilson.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Montgomery County Genealogical Society, Montgomery County History (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter, 1981).
Isaac Decker born 1795 in Canada from some of the early records. May have been born to Thomas Decker, a Loyalist to Great Britain during the American Revolution. In his own word in a Statement of Character, he sez that he was "a native of the Michigan Territory" and is "married with five children" and a man of the "Christian religion". He shows up in The State of Coahuila on March 17, 1835 as a Colonist with the Ben R Milam settlers. So in Spanish documents he was granted one league of Land in present day Milam County Texas. He was introduced to the Local Commissioner by R M Williamson, an agent of Ben Milam. This land of 640 acres is situated on Williamson Creek. And on the application is a short note about Value of Cargo and it was paid. Signed by Samuel May Williams. Due to the many Native Indian battles with the Settlers, Isaac up and moved to Montgomery County Texas. Here in another statement he sez that he "arrived in this country in 1834" and "a man of family and entitled to one Labor of Land". So he is awarded 177 acres at the rate of $3.50 per ever Labor of Irrigable land and $2.50 per ever Labor of Temporal or Arable land. The first for farming and the second for pasture. What a bargain? This land is North of Spring Creek and is present day "Decker Prairie". His home place was located on Old West Montgomery Road at the present [2003] address of 32941 Wright Road. The large Oak trees and the Black Walnut trees at this address is over 100 years old and may have been planted by Isaac.
He was a cobbler [shoe maker] and a Saddler according to tradition and used the tannic acid from the Red Oak leaves along Spring Creek to dye the leather Red. Isaac took the oath of amnesty in Houston Tx for his part in the Civil War. While he was too old to go to war, he did make saddles and harness for the Confederate soldiers horses. Pronounced "harses" here in Texas.
Isaac's birth place is unproven at this time [2000] and he could have been born in Pennsylvania and his father moved the family to Canada as Loyalist's and returned after the Revolutionary War and moved south to Texas, where you don't ask too many QUESTIONS...
Source Title: Records of Nellie Williams/Walker. Research by Billie Jean Barrow/Reome and
Source Title: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's
Note: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's-Deaths 1838 to 1900.
According to my research, Isaac Decker was considered to be a wealthy man in Montgomery County. Not only did he own a large amount of land, he also owned slaves.
Isaac Decker had at least 5 wives and at least 24 children! One of the five wives was Alcey (or Alice) Jane Alston with whom Isaac fathered John Decker. John Decker married Sarah C. Terrell, with whom John Hebert Decker was born.
John Hebert Decker married Effie Elizabeth Tiller who gave birth to Nelson Decker.
Nelson Ervin Decker married Dorris Lee Stearns with whom Sharon Kay Decker and Linda Lee Decker were born.
Sharon Kay Decker married Houston artist/sculptor Bobby Gerald Wilson and they had two sons, Scott David Wilson and Christoper Kevin Wilson.
Scott David married Genevieve Lynn Grissom and they had Jonathan Tyler Wilson, Ryan Bobby Wilson and Wade Thomas Wilson.
Christopher Kevin Wilson married Ann Marie Grissom (Genevieve's sister) and they had Joshua Caleb Wilson and Haley BreAnn Wilson.
DECKER PRAIRIE, TEXAS. Decker Prairie, also known as Decker's or Deckers Prairie, is a dispersed rural community located on State Highway 249 about thirty miles northwest of Houston and seventeen miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County. Settlement in this area just north of Spring Creek and the Montgomery/Harris county line had begun in the 1830s. The community was named for settler Isaac Decker, whose land grant was surveyed in 1839. In the early 1860s a Confederate powder mill operated on nearby Spring Creek, but an explosion in late 1863 destroyed the mill and caused the deaths of three workers. Decker Prairie existed as a farming community in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the earliest marked grave in Decker's Prairie Cemetery dates to the 1870s. In the early 1900s a school operated in the area, and 1930s highway maps depicted the school and numerous dwellings. Apparently the school closed by the second half of the twentieth century. On May 26, 1968, residents erected a monument commemorating the site of the powder mill. By the 1980s Spring Creek Park at this site served the recreational needs of Decker Prairie. No population estimates were available in 1990 or 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Montgomery County Genealogical Society, Montgomery County History (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter, 1981).
Isaac Decker born 1795 in Canada from some of the early records. May have been born to Thomas Decker, a Loyalist to Great Britain during the American Revolution. In his own word in a Statement of Character, he sez that he was "a native of the Michigan Territory" and is "married with five children" and a man of the "Christian religion". He shows up in The State of Coahuila on March 17, 1835 as a Colonist with the Ben R Milam settlers. So in Spanish documents he was granted one league of Land in present day Milam County Texas. He was introduced to the Local Commissioner by R M Williamson, an agent of Ben Milam. This land of 640 acres is situated on Williamson Creek. And on the application is a short note about Value of Cargo and it was paid. Signed by Samuel May Williams. Due to the many Native Indian battles with the Settlers, Isaac up and moved to Montgomery County Texas. Here in another statement he sez that he "arrived in this country in 1834" and "a man of family and entitled to one Labor of Land". So he is awarded 177 acres at the rate of $3.50 per ever Labor of Irrigable land and $2.50 per ever Labor of Temporal or Arable land. The first for farming and the second for pasture. What a bargain? This land is North of Spring Creek and is present day "Decker Prairie". His home place was located on Old West Montgomery Road at the present [2003] address of 32941 Wright Road. The large Oak trees and the Black Walnut trees at this address is over 100 years old and may have been planted by Isaac.
He was a cobbler [shoe maker] and a Saddler according to tradition and used the tannic acid from the Red Oak leaves along Spring Creek to dye the leather Red. Isaac took the oath of amnesty in Houston Tx for his part in the Civil War. While he was too old to go to war, he did make saddles and harness for the Confederate soldiers horses. Pronounced "harses" here in Texas.
Isaac's birth place is unproven at this time [2000] and he could have been born in Pennsylvania and his father moved the family to Canada as Loyalist's and returned after the Revolutionary War and moved south to Texas, where you don't ask too many QUESTIONS...
Source Title: Records of Nellie Williams/Walker. Research by Billie Jean Barrow/Reome and
Source Title: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's
Note: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's-Deaths 1838 to 1900.
According to my research, Isaac Decker was considered to be a wealthy man in Montgomery County. Not only did he own a large amount of land, he also owned slaves.
Isaac Decker had at least 5 wives and at least 24 children! One of the five wives was Alcey (or Alice) Jane Alston with whom Isaac fathered John Decker. John Decker married Sarah C. Terrell, with whom John Hebert Decker was born.
John Hebert Decker married Effie Elizabeth Tiller who gave birth to Nelson Decker.
Nelson Ervin Decker married Dorris Lee Stearns with whom Sharon Kay Decker and Linda Lee Decker were born.
Sharon Kay Decker married Houston artist/sculptor Bobby Gerald Wilson and they had two sons, Scott David Wilson and Christoper Kevin Wilson.
Scott David married Genevieve Lynn Grissom and they had Jonathan Tyler Wilson, Ryan Bobby Wilson and Wade Thomas Wilson.
Christopher Kevin Wilson married Ann Marie Grissom (Genevieve's sister) and they had Joshua Caleb Wilson and Haley BreAnn Wilson.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Montgomery County Genealogical Society, Montgomery County History (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter, 1981).
Isaac Decker born 1795 in Canada from some of the early records. May have been born to Thomas Decker, a Loyalist to Great Britain during the American Revolution. In his own word in a Statement of Character, he sez that he was "a native of the Michigan Territory" and is "married with five children" and a man of the "Christian religion". He shows up in The State of Coahuila on March 17, 1835 as a Colonist with the Ben R Milam settlers. So in Spanish documents he was granted one league of Land in present day Milam County Texas. He was introduced to the Local Commissioner by R M Williamson, an agent of Ben Milam. This land of 640 acres is situated on Williamson Creek. And on the application is a short note about Value of Cargo and it was paid. Signed by Samuel May Williams. Due to the many Native Indian battles with the Settlers, Isaac up and moved to Montgomery County Texas. Here in another statement he sez that he "arrived in this country in 1834" and "a man of family and entitled to one Labor of Land". So he is awarded 177 acres at the rate of $3.50 per ever Labor of Irrigable land and $2.50 per ever Labor of Temporal or Arable land. The first for farming and the second for pasture. What a bargain? This land is North of Spring Creek and is present day "Decker Prairie". His home place was located on Old West Montgomery Road at the present [2003] address of 32941 Wright Road. The large Oak trees and the Black Walnut trees at this address is over 100 years old and may have been planted by Isaac.
He was a cobbler [shoe maker] and a Saddler according to tradition and used the tannic acid from the Red Oak leaves along Spring Creek to dye the leather Red. Isaac took the oath of amnesty in Houston Tx for his part in the Civil War. While he was too old to go to war, he did make saddles and harness for the Confederate soldiers horses. Pronounced "harses" here in Texas.
Isaac's birth place is unproven at this time [2000] and he could have been born in Pennsylvania and his father moved the family to Canada as Loyalist's and returned after the Revolutionary War and moved south to Texas, where you don't ask too many QUESTIONS...
Source Title: Records of Nellie Williams/Walker. Research by Billie Jean Barrow/Reome and
Source Title: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's
Note: Montgomery Co Tx Black Box's-Deaths 1838 to 1900.
According to my research, Isaac Decker was considered to be a wealthy man in Montgomery County. Not only did he own a large amount of land, he also owned slaves.
Isaac Decker had at least 5 wives and at least 24 children! One of the five wives was Alcey (or Alice) Jane Alston with whom Isaac fathered John Decker. John Decker married Sarah C. Terrell, with whom John Hebert Decker was born.
John Hebert Decker married Effie Elizabeth Tiller who gave birth to Nelson Decker.
Nelson Ervin Decker married Dorris Lee Stearns with whom Sharon Kay Decker and Linda Lee Decker were born.
Sharon Kay Decker married Houston artist/sculptor Bobby Gerald Wilson and they had two sons, Scott David Wilson and Christoper Kevin Wilson.
Scott David married Genevieve Lynn Grissom and they had Jonathan Tyler Wilson, Ryan Bobby Wilson and Wade Thomas Wilson.
Christopher Kevin Wilson married Ann Marie Grissom (Genevieve's sister) and they had Joshua Caleb Wilson and Haley BreAnn Wilson.
