Hello Karen My OLIVER, CLEMENTS, and GREGORY families also immigrated from Somerset County, England to Skaneateles. The Gregory's and Oliver's came to grow teasel for the woolen mills in Onondaga Co. I don't have as much information concerning the Clements family. We visited the Oliver farm at Marcellus a few years ago, and found teasel still growing wild along the tree row. The woolen mills used the burrs on the seed pods to lift the nap of the wool. John OLIVER came from Winscombe, Somerset. His first marriage was to the widow Mary GREGORY MARSHALL, daughter of Joshua and Phebe PAUL GREGORY. Ephraim and Mary COOMBS CLEMENTS were married in 1808 in Burnham Parish in Somerset, and several of their children immigrated to Onondaga County during the 1840's. Ephraim was a resident of Blagdosh parish at the time of the marriage. Their son George moved to Draycott before coming to the US. Many of the above are buried at Lakeview Cem in Skaneateles. John Oliver's tombstone states that he was born in Winscombe. I would like to hear from more Somerset area descendants as well! Gayle in Kansas [email protected]

I recently obtained the obituaries of two people who died in the late 1890s in the Baldwinsville area that have the Rev. G. W. Reynolds officiating. I would like to reference the appropriate church's records, but that is not identified in either. Anybody have an idea what church he was with?