[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] habit of baking bread tor the hungry American sol-diers and militiamen, and hiding it, where she knew they would find it, in the rocks. She was the daugh-; ter of Peter Van Wermer, a patriot also of Holland blood. She died on part of the premises owned by her father and her husband, August 31, 18"><>, aged one hundred and four years. The late Rev. A. T. Stewart, then pastor of the First Reformed ( 'hurch of Tarrytown, who knew her well, wrote an account of her life and death, which was published in the We*tche*ter Heralm at Sing Sing. The following is an extract from it: " Mrs. Homer was seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage with Hendrick Homer, of the same town, and twenty-four at the Decla-ration of Independence, and one hundred and four years old in July last. " Her husband enlisted in the Continental Army, leaving her, with only a young brother and slave, in charge of the farm. Through all the war she cherished a strong love for her country. In conversation oothe scenes of that period she would become exceedingly animated, too much so to express herself in the English language, and she would leave it and take up the Dutch, which was familiar to her, and pour forth her