Dear Debbie, et al, CAhobbies@aol.com wrote: > Hello Everyone... back again.. this time with my HOSMER family. > > (and a special note to Vee... "yes" I have HOSMER family in Niagara County... > and a copy of the 3-volume set of The Hosmer Heritage... and "still" some > loose ends on the direct line... and have been finding out about many of the > collateral lines over this past year....). I even have my PRATT family > we've been talking about and this HOSMER line meeting up! I was so excited to see those old familiar Hosmer names. I was reminded that I had Sylvester Hosmer in my files as being one of the early settlers of Wilson. This is what is mentioned in "Landmarks of Niagara Co., NY" by William Pool, 1897, about him: A Methodist class was formed in Wilson probably as early as 1820. The first quarterly meeting of the Lewiston Cirucit, of which this class formed a part, that was held in Wilson took place July 8, 1826. Wilson remained in that circuit nineteen years. In August 1842, Willson village was set apart as a separate station. The society was incorporated Decemaber 28, 1836, with John Haze, Daniel Terry, Samuel R. Merwin, Cyrus Case, Luther Wilson, Samuel Healy and Sylvester Hosmer trustees. The erection of a frame church was begun in 1837 on a lot donated by Andrew Brown. The parsonage was erected in 1846. The old frame church was finally removed and is now [1897] used as a town hall, and in 1883-84 the Exley M. E. church was built, of brick, on the site. This evening when I went over my Hosmer file and compared my information with yours, I found discrepancies between the two. At this late hour I won't attempt to sort it all out. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be able to put it all into the right perspective. But right now I'll just point out the three most important things about genealogy research, (1) sources, (2) sources, and (3) sources! And right now I'm going mostly on "published" sources and unless I research a family on my own and know where I get the information from, I hesitate to pass on information from another source. We'll see. til later, vee