“Blessed are the dead”

On a gravestone the carving of an open book often represents an open Bible. On the gravestone of Rachel Decker (d. 1848), we can be sure it is a Bible because an excerpt from a Bible verse is written there: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord (Revelations 14:13).

RACHEL DECKER,
Wife of
JOHN DECKER
died
Dec. 16, 1848;
Aged 24 Ys,
10 m. 24 ds.

Rachel Dawson married John Decker on February 18, 1845. Rachel died months before their third anniversary. Did the Deckers have children? Did John remarry?

From Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950 on FamilySearch.org

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Pleasant Cemetery, Marion County, Ohio