Moses Decker was born in Knox county, Ind., Dec. 16, 1806, son of Moses Decker, who was born in 1780 in Washington county. Pa., and was brought by his parents to the Northwestern Territory in 1785; he was raised in the fort at Vincennes, and when large enough to carry a gun he went into the war against the Indians; he died in 1864. Moses, jr. was raised on a farm in pioneer style; education, likewise, being in the usual old-fashionea log school-house, with a greased deer-skin for a window, and a lire-place for heating the room. In 1827 he married Melinda, daughter of Tarleton Boren, dec. In 1835 they came to this county, settling on sec. 1, this tp., where he still resides, a farmer and stock-raiser. Of his 11 children these 9 are living: Hannah, Martha, Melinda, Christina, Ezra, Asher, Amry, Margaret and Emery. Mrs. D. died May 25, 1877, an honored member of society.

History of Pike County, Illinois By Chapman, Chas. C., & Co, Chas. C. Chapman & Co.. 1880
(From Mavis (Turnbaugh) Wike Notebook)
Moses Decker was the original purchaser of one hundred and sixty-eight acres of land in Section 1, Kinderhook township, Pike County, IL, from the Federal Government, in 1835. On this farm is the family burial plot where Moses Decker III, his wife, Malinda (Boren) Decker and two of their children, Green Decker and Abner Decker, are buried. The Decker farm stayed in the family, through descendants ofMoses Decker, until about 1970, the last familymembers to own it being Moses Decker's grandaughter, Leona (Tooley) Larimore and her husband Clarence Larimore. Leona Tooley was a daughter ofJack and Margaret (Decker) Tooley.