OBIT: Daniel DETER, 1919, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

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DANIEL DETER

  Daniel Deter died at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, 
Mrs. W. H. Whiteleather, West Second street.  He has been ill since December 3, 
with heart trouble but had been confined to his bed but one week.  Daniel Deter 
was born January 23, 1840, in Centre county, the son of John and Catherine 
Nihart Deter, and has resided in Blair county for thirty-eight years.  He was a 
well known Civil war veteran enlisting in 1861 and serving until the close of 
the war as a member of the 146th Pennsylvania Bucktails, of the old 1st corps.  
He was a member of the G.A.R., Robert M. Johnson Post at Williamsburg, also a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Williamsburg.  He is survived by 
two brothers and one sister as follows: John, of Tyrone; Perry, of Union 
Furnace; and Mrs. Joel Hicks, of Sunbury; and by these children, Mrs. Mary 
Lockhart and Mrs. Whiteleather, both of Williamsburg, James of Royer and Howard 
of Elmira, N.Y.  Mr. Deter was of a kindly disposition and will be greatly 
missed in this vicinity.  Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock in the Methodist church.  Interment will be made at Royer.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, February 10, 1919, page 11

The funeral of Daniel Deter, a Civil war veteran, who died Sunday morning at the 
home of his daughter, Mrs. William Whiteleather, on Second street, of a 
complication of diseases superinduced by heart trouble, occurred at the 
Methodist Episcopal church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, services conducted by 
his pastor, Dr. C. T. Dunning.  He was a man who always had something pleasant 
to say when meeting his friends and he will be missed.  Interment was made at 
Royer.

Altoona Tribune, Wednesday, February 12, 1919, page 2