When Charles Adams Decker was born on 8 May 1923, in Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States, his father, James Bean Decker, was 39 and his mother, Laura Pearl Adams, was 38. He immigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1954 and lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 4 Fruitland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1940. He died on 9 January 1989, in Río Piedras Pueblo, San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kirtland Cemetery, Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
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German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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