Zechariah Bruyn Decker Jr.
Zechariah Bruyn Decker Jr. (1850-1939) was born 11 Mar. 1850 in Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory. He was the son of Zechariah Bruyn Decker and Nancy Bean. He married Emma Seraphine Smith on 4 Oct. 1869 in Salt Lake City, widowed 29 Dec. 1909. He married Carolina Henrietta Anastina Closius on 27 Jan. 1915 in Salt Lake City. He was baptized 25 Mar. 1861. While serving as a Bishop he commented on mission call responses sent to President Wilford Woodruff in 1898. He died 9 Mar. 1939 in Snowflake, Navajo Co., Arizona.
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