John Decker, son of John Decker of Decker’s Fort, remained behind when his father and family left Mingo Bottoms in 1784 and gradually resettled in Indiana. 

The young Decker established his own homestead near West Liberty. While riding to Holliday’s Cove (Weirton) along a ridge on the east side of Scott’s run he discovered Indians in pursuit. “They fired and a ball broke his horse’s leg.  He then attempted to escape on foot, but was overtaken and killed.” Thomas Wiggins, who lived near, alarmed by the firing, seized his rifle and hastened to the area where the shots occurred and found the body of Decker.

• Virgil A. Lewis, “History of West Virginia in Two Parts,” (Hubbard Brothers, 1889), p. 581.