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Susan <I>Shrive</I> Decker

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Susan Shrive Decker

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
6 Mar 1879 (aged 64–65)
Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Lebanon Township, Meigs County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.0245018, Longitude: -81.8330994
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She is said to have been born about 1811 in Pennsylvania. Her parents were James A. and Susan Shrive, burial places unknown
Her first husband was John Rose, married in Jefferson County, Ohio, who died about 1850, probably in Meigs County, Ohio, where he is probably buried, perhaps in Chester Township or in this Bald Knob Cemetery. Susan and John Rose had eight children, five girls and three boys; one of them was Amos Rose, who was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in 1862, and after a short service, becoming disabled, so that he died in the hospital at Portland, North Carolina, in the same year.
Susan was 18 years older than Job Decker when they married in 1852, and they had two sons: David Gillespie Decker (born Aug. 11, 1853 in Chester Township, Meigs County, Ohio, died July 30, 1924, married Mary F. Seeley, had several children, said to be buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Mason County, West Virginia); and Andrew Jackson Decker (1856-1935), buried in this cemetery.
She is said to have been born about 1811 in Pennsylvania. Her parents were James A. and Susan Shrive, burial places unknown
Her first husband was John Rose, married in Jefferson County, Ohio, who died about 1850, probably in Meigs County, Ohio, where he is probably buried, perhaps in Chester Township or in this Bald Knob Cemetery. Susan and John Rose had eight children, five girls and three boys; one of them was Amos Rose, who was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in 1862, and after a short service, becoming disabled, so that he died in the hospital at Portland, North Carolina, in the same year.
Susan was 18 years older than Job Decker when they married in 1852, and they had two sons: David Gillespie Decker (born Aug. 11, 1853 in Chester Township, Meigs County, Ohio, died July 30, 1924, married Mary F. Seeley, had several children, said to be buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Mason County, West Virginia); and Andrew Jackson Decker (1856-1935), buried in this cemetery.


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