Hello Gail. Thanks for keeping us informed of new contacts. With respect to Mr. Magallanez' inquiry about Jimmy Deck, I presume he is referring either to my grandfather James Deck, the son of Reuben Garret Deck and Lucinda Hackler or to James' son , my uncle Jimmy. Uncle Jimmy Deck was born in Shafter, TX I believe, (not far from Marfa), the frist son of Rosa or Rose Duke and James Deck. Unlce Jimmy moved on to Arizona where he lived many years in Wickenburg serving as deputee sheriff at one time like his father, my grandfather James who was Sherif of Wickenburg. Uncle Jimmy was marreid several times--I don't know how many. He had several children. But I always knew him as living alone like a bachelor on the few occasions my dad George would take me to visit him and my grandma Rose who lived the last years of her life (she died in 1963) in Congress not far from Wickenburg. Uncle Jimmy was always a rather gracious and "cool" fellow, an ordinary guy. At least that's the recollection when I knew him. My last visit with him was when driving through Wickenburg. He lived in a motel and would come every day to the Golden Nucket Restaurant on the main drag for breakfast. I rendezvoused with him there once. I think it was in the 1970's. Uncle Jimmy was the oldest of the children of James and Rose. He was born, as I said, in the late 1890's and moved to Arizona when his father James went to live in Dos Cabezas (now a ghost town)outside of Wilcox where he had a mine. Grandfather James also had a mercury mine in the Globe area. I never knew my grandfather James but gransma said he wasn't a very nice man. Later on I found out that James had a totally different family with another lady he had before my grandmother Rose. Her name was margarita Sosa and he took her to Silver City, New Mexico and had 3 childrren with her. I met one of the grandchildren a few years ago, Eva Deck who is now deceased. She looked me up to tell me "the family secret" that her son-in-law, a Mormon had researched.
Apparently unlce Jimmy and my dad knew about thios other wife and family, but never said a thing to any of us when we were growing up. Now my dad and all of them have gone on tto be betteer life we hope.

By the way, my sister and I went to Grafenhausen, outside of Darmstat in Hesse, Germany last August. WEW found no traces of any Decks. It is a rather rare name in Germany, but it is German. According to t he geneology on Gails Ancestry.com t he first Decks came form there to Virgina in the 18th century. Gr afenhausen was totally dest royed in tin WWII. It is a pretty far m country. Today there's a nice housing developpment for suburban people who work in Darmstat, a very pleasant city close by.

Regards to all the Decks out there!

All the best,

Rev. Allan Deck, SJ