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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: Erato on Sunday 16 May 21 03:59 BST (UK)
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Quite by chance I came across this photo of George Warren Decker at the 'Ancient Faces' website. He was the husband of Emily Stalla Price, a second cousin twice removed.
https://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/george-warren-decker/365575?collection=surname&collection_id=2627
The photo was reportedly found in a Tallahassee, Florida antique shop. This makes sense because Decker descendants did wind up in Tallahassee. Apparently, on the back of the photo, it says that he died on 18 February 1935 in Wyoming but I can't find his death in the Wyoming vital records available at FamilySearch or at the Wyoming State Archives. What he might have been doing in Wyoming is a mystery inasmuch as he was a sail maker from Brooklyn, NY.
Does anyone have access to more complete Wyoming records or maybe an obituary?
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Times Union
Brooklyn, New York
18 Feb 1935, Mon • Page 22
Death: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77772758/george-w-decker-death/
Times Union
Brooklyn, New York
18 Feb 1935, Mon • Page 22
Obit: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77772808/george-w-decker-obit/
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Thanks, RJ. Shame they don't mention the Wyoming angle. I wonder if there's any truth to it?
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From Findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117721666/george-w-decker
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You may already have this...
Death Notice Emily S Decker - The Miami Herald Miami, Florida
23 Sep 1951, Sun Page 41
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77778447/emily-sdecker-23-september-1951/
Sandra
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Might be background info ..........
Gladys Uppit - Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee, Florida
16 Jan 1999, Sat Page 21
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77778502/obituary-for-gladys-e-uppit-aged-101/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77778513/column-2/
Sandra
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Obituary for Walter J. Uppit (Aged 82) -
The Miami News Miami, Florida 10 Aug 1962, Fri Page 31
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77778491/obituary-for-walter-j-uppit-aged-82/
Sandra
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Obituary for Herbert Walter Uppitt (Aged 75)
Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee, Florida 22 Aug 2001, Wed Page 17
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50284664/obituary-for-herbert-walter-uppitt/
Sandra
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Obituary for Grace Georgia Metz Metz Colberg, 1923-2001 (Aged 78)
Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee, Florida 11 Jan 2002, Fri Page 17
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77778541/obituary-for-grace-georgia-metz-metz/
Sandra
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Thanks, RJ. Shame they don't mention the Wyoming angle. I wonder if there's any truth to it?
You're welcome.
I doubt he died in Wyoming or had anything to do with Wyoming.
From the wording of the obit he died in New York. The one clip states he died "this morning". I really doubt morning news from Wyoming would have travelled to New York, to make the afternoon paper there.
Also, the funeral was to take place Wednesday at the Fred Herbst Sons Memorial, which is in Brooklyn. I don't see getting a body from Wyoming, Monday morning, to Brooklyn by 2 pm Wednesday for a funeral service, especially in 1935.
There is a Wyoming, New York that could be a possibility, but that's in the western side of the state.
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Yes, I came to the same conclusion - there wasn't time to get the body back from Wyoming so there must be some kind of snafu in the information on the back of the photo.
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George's death certificate was from New York - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRS-D1D A transcription of the certificate said he died at 451 Clarkson Avenue, Kings County Hospital, so definitely not Wyoming.
My guess is that a handwritten NY was mistaken for WY.