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- Margaretha Disque was born July 4, 1842, christened July 6, 1842 in the Evangelisch church, Wilgartswiesen, Pfalz, Bayern, immigrate in 1864, and died June 21, 1915 in Wilkes-Barre, PA. In Pennsylvania she married Philip Decker Aug. 10, 1865 in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The 1880 US Census has Philip Decker, worker in coal mines, born about 1835 in Bavaria, Germany living in Wilkes-Barre, PA with Margaret (38), Philip (14), John (10), Louisa (12), and Robert (8). Ancestry.com has Philip Decker, Sr.'s death 1890-1892. From the 1900 US Census, Margaret was a widow living in Ward 13, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA who had four children of whom three were living (Philip born July 1866 and died Feb. 14, 1933; John born Dec. 20, 1869; Barbara born May 1872 - strange because Robert's birth is given as about 1872; Louisa died March 3, 1899 of pneumonia). Ancestry.com has additional information: Magdalena L. (Nov. 20, 1867 - March 1870) - fifth child not mentioned in any census, Louisa born about 1868, Barbara (May 1, 1872 - Feb. 6, 1954), Robert (about 1872 - about 1889).
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