From the Port Jervis Evening Gazette for April 19, 1879, page 2: Levi Lateer, aged 93, one of Wantage's four pensioned veterans fo 1812, died April seventh. The wife of Peter Whitaker of Horseheads, N.Y., formerly of Deckertown, N.J., died a few days since at Charleston, S.C., while on their return home from a fruitless visit south for the benefit of her health. She was the daughter of Mrs. W.W. Dekay, of Sussex county. The mother of Mr. John A. Whitaker, President of the Farmers' Bank of Deckertown, was attacked April second with apoplexy and still lies in an unconscious condition.