THE people

Catherine Knox Decker

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
April 30, 1844
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Kate K. Decker*
MAIDEN NAME:
Knox
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
3228 Groveland Ave. 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Myron Decker
Mamie Decker
Blanche Decker Kinsey
Thomas and Mary Ann (Connell) Knox

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
59
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago IL
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

Daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Connell) Knox. Wife of Myron Decker. Mother of Mamie, Myron, Florence and Blanche. Katie, her husband and their daughter Mamie died in the Iroquois Theatre Fire.

CITATION:

McCurdy, D. B. (1904). Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror. Chicago: Memorial Publishing Company, accessed https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm, p 332
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135251860/catherine-decker

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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