Melvina Deckard

Melvina was born in 1873.  Melvina's father was King Anthony Mone Deckard and her mother was Nancy Caroline Clendenning.  Her paternal grandparents were John Stewart and Elizabeth Deckard; her maternal grandparents were Charles Americas and Lavinia (Allen) Clendenning. She had three brothers and three sisters, named Marion, Eli, Robert, Mary Ellen, Jane and Sissie Mollie. She had six half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Herbert, Marshal, Otto S., Ora, Dillon, Curtis Cecil, Golda Verge, Cordillia and Gertrude Alice.