Johannes (John) Johann Jacob II, was on active Duty as Private in American Revolutionary Army as shown by following:----War Department at Washington, D. C., states under date of 5-23-1921 "the reords of this office show that one Jacob Deckard (surname not born as Deckard, rank not stated served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier of Va. Inf., organizaton not shown. His name appears in book under the heading "A list of State Soldiers & Seamen who have received certificates for the balance of their full pay, agreeable to Act of Assembly passed November Session 1781" which shows that on 7-30-1874 the sum of 21 pounds 9 shillings & 4 pence was drawn by one, Mr. Broadhead." Report No. 8 at Richmond in Va. State Library of Revolutionary Soldiers of Va. shows Jacob Deckard on Active Duty. List of Virginia Revbolutionary Soldiers by H. J. Eckenrode, Archives of Va. State.

Father: Johannes Jacob I "Squire" Deckert b: Jul 24 1720 in Metz, Germany d: 1815 Elizabeth Township, Essex County, New Jersey
Mother: Anna Merrill b: 1728 d: Dec 7 1762

Johannes Jacob I, Deckert accompanied his 3 sons to America around 1775-76 arriving in New York but settling in Essex County, New Jersey. He must have tired of his name being pronounced as Decker becaused he dropped the "t" from his name in America. It is said that he helped other immigrants get settled in America. Eventually he settled in the Southwestern part of the State of Virginia, in what is now Wythe County which was constituted about 1790. The Deckard Family had all left Wythe County by about 1830 to 1832 and settled in Monroe Co., Indiana. Then principally to surrounding counties in Indiana of Lawrence, Brown, Green, Sullivan, and to state of Missouri. About 1900's they were spreading thru Arkansas and then into Oklahoma.



Marriage to: Mary Elizabeth Vance b: 1760 Botetourt County, Virginia d: 1840 Monroe County, Bloomington, Indiana
Parents: Father: Samuel VANCE
Mother: Margaret LAUGHLAND/LAUGHLIN
d: Monroe County, Bloomington, Indiana
Married: Abt 1780 in Botetourt County, Virigina


Children:
Mary Deckard b: in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Michael Deckard b: 1781 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina d: 1 Mar 1839 Smithville, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Jacob Deckard Jr. b: 3 Feb 1791 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia d: 24 Jun 1878 in Brown County, Indiana.
John Deckard b: Abt 1794 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Henry Deckard b: Jul 1795 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
William Deckard b: Abt 1799 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Daniel Deckard b: Abt 1801 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Sallie Deckard b: Abt 1807 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Adam Deckard b: Abt 1808 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
* John "Jesse" Wesley Deckard b: Abt 1809 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina
Catherine Deckard b: Abt 1818 in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virigina


Cemetery Directions: Sec 9 Polk Township,
Located on what is now Ransburg Boy Scout Camp
Bloomington
Monroe County
Indiana USA