Here's our great-great-great grandfather Isaac Decker, and here's where he's buried. I can't show you his gravestone, because he doesn't have one. The hillside's green and lovely, but only the records of the Salt Lake City Cemetery indicate his precise resting place (Plat E, Block 13, Lot 12).

It's hard to avoid the impression that official Salt Lake has wished to ignore Isaac. His son and namesake Isaac Perry Decker, then aged six, was the "senior child" of the famous pioneer company of 1847. The "junior child" was Perry's stepbrother Lorenzo Sobieski Young. At the "This Is The Place" monument, and again in Pioneer Park, both boys' names appear in durable bronze. Together with those of Sobieski's father and mother, despite their divorce. Perry is credited with one parent: his mother Harriet Page Wheeler Decker Young. No mention of Perry's father, Isaac Decker, in either location.