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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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Come up here every year to
keep their memory green.
Bear in mind that they
stand to you both in the
relation of ancestors and tes-
tators. Motives of pure piety
are not very strong, but they
acquire additional strength
when mingled with motives
of vanity. Cynics and satirists
may laugh at family pride
as much as they please, they
cannot succeed in making
mankind ashamed or even
indifferent to it. We all of
us, like to see ourselves the
out come the present represen-
tatives of a long line of
honorable ancestors, and you
are no exception to the rule.
You would not like to see
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the name of Wm Bull drop
into oblivion, because you
are proud that you can
trace your descent back to him.
And yet a generation might
arise which knew him not
but for the lively reminder
of this picnic. Even in
your own lifetimes your
neighbors might not hold
you in higher respect for the
Bull blood which flows
in your veins, were it not
for the prominence which
this Bull family reunion
has attained. The last
Wednesday in Aug, is known
far and wide as the Bull
picnic day. If through some
oversight the Secretary should
fail to give notice of it, I