Smalley Family reunion was held at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smalley in the town of Wirt July 7th.There were 61 present The farm has been in the family 100 years 1825-1925 so this reunion was more in the form of a celebration and was of special interest to both young and old. There were members present from Meadville,Rochester, Cuba, and Belmont. The following history was read: Isaac Sears Smalley son of Abner and Mary Smalley was born in New Jersey 3 May 1802. He married Cornelia Parrott, daughter of Samuel and Mary Parrott in 1822. In the fall of 1824 they came to New York state. They went to Seneca County near Ovid and visited his parents who had gone there from New Jersey some time before.Then they journeyed on to Belvidere where a Mr McCoy lived who had formerly lived in New Jersey. They rented a house back of where the Erie station now stands and near a old sawmill. The next year 1825 late in the summer they moved to the farm. They had to move with oxen and sled because there were so many stumps and logs in the road. Instead of following the present road they turned to the right just below the Shawmut culvert above Nile and went near the old house and barn on the Voorhier farm and above the Voorhies orchard and then on to the present road. It was a forest all the way except a few cleared spots. There was a hotel on the Sam Strahan farm and one on the corner where Orrin Cleveland lived. All the chopping and clearing there was done on the farm was around the loghouse. The house stood down near the road. They cleareda spot across the creek from the house and sowed grain but the deer ate it. During the first winter all the yoke of oxen had to eat was browse and their shelter was a log shed with a brush roof. During the first winters he would shave pine shingles and take them to Geneseo and trade them for corn. There was a grist mill on the land now owned by Mr Quick on Pennsylvania Ave. part 2 next email Elaine s88897@aol.com