This is a transcription of the elders section from The Men Who Called Dr. Bullions 104 Years Ago, written by Rev. John C. Scott, D. D., The Washington County Post, Cambridge, NY, 1911.

Alexander Skelly—aged seventy-two; was made an elder at the organization of the congregation in 1785; stands at the head of all lists of this date; was an early settler, a Revolutionary soldier, a town officer as early as 1776; was the great-grandfather of Alexander of this village, and ancestor of all the Skellies of this region; lived on a part of the Abbie Green farm, but owned the farm now held by Henry and Robert; died in 1816.

James Small—aged fifty-eight; came to this place in 1774, and was a Revolutionary soldier; became an elder at the organization of the church; his wife was Ann Beveridge, and he was the great grandfather of the late James Small of Jackson, and the ancestor of a numerous and widely scattered family group, some of them being noted men; lived on the farm now owned by Horace Becker; died in 1827.

James Hoy—aged sixty-two; his family were early settlers in Salem, and he became a member here in 1787 and an elder in 1794; David F. Hoy, now registrar of Cornell University, is a great-grandson, as is also the late Alexander Green of this village through his daughter Jannet; the late John Lourie Beveridge, ex-governor of Illinois, was a grandson through his daughter Ann; lived on the farm now owned by George Cowan in Jackson; died in 1832.

William Graham—aged fifty-seven; came to this country in 1774; lived in the village of Sodom, now Shushan; became an elder in 1800; moved to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1817, where many descendants still live; was the ancestor of a great and widely scattered group, distinguished educators being among them, as Dr. Russell Graham of Monmouth collage, Prof. L. D. Graham of Muskingum college, and the late Robert Graham, state superintendent of instruction of Wisconsin; died in 1822.

Robert Oliver—aged sixty-three; came to this region about 1770; became a member of this church in 1788 and an elder in 1794; was clerk of the congregation many years; our early records are in his clear, readable hand; Rev. J. P. Miller says that he was clerk of the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania for a time; no descendants known; lived on a now abandoned road on the hill east of the Thomas B. Lourie place, and later in the house in Coila lately occupied by William Johnson, colored; died in 1813.

John Ashton—aged forty-four; son of Major James; came to America in 1772 when a child; was chosen an elder in 1794; many descendants in the county and west, the late Dr. John Ashton of Center Cambridge and James White Ashton of Ash Grove were grandsons; lived on the William Lawton farm in Ash Grove; died in 1837.

John McClellan—aged forty-three; a son of Robert, a pioneer in the town of Hebron; wife was Sarah Thompson, a daughter of William, a pioneer of Salem, of the James M. Thompson connection there; Isabella McClellan is a granddaughter; his daughter, Sarah, became the wife of Rev. David French, whose family, with five clergymen in it, was widely known in the church; lived on the farm now owned by Samuel Wallace; died in 1857.

John Maxwell—aged fifty-two; came to America with three brothers in 1787; chosen elder in 1800; his wife was Jennet McFarland, a cousin of John (below); lived on the farm on Scotch Hill, now owned by his great-grandson, Robert J. Maxwell; ancestor of the Jackson Maxwells and of a large and widely scattered family group; killed by an accident in 1819.