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Sept 1, 1922 Bull Family news "Middletown Daily Press"Entry/Object ID
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Bull Family, Bull PicnicScope and Content
MIDDLETOWN DAILY TIMES-PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1922.
1921-22 Adds New Chapter to the Bull Family History
Wednesday’s Bull Family picnic, which was the 55th held, marked the 200th anniversary of the commencement of the building of the Bull Stone House in Hamptonburgh. The reunion was held at the old house and was an unusually successful affair. The weather was perfect.
Over 300 were present including many from Binghamton, Kingston, New York city and Milford, Pa. Others from a distance were, Mrs. Murray W. Seagears, of Miami, Fla.; Miss Effie D. Bull, of Pine Bush, and Stevenson H. Walsh, of 203 Walnut place, Philadelphia.
For many years Mr. Walsh has been preparing a genealogy of the descendants of William Bull and Sarah Wells to the seventh generation. He has written to all members of the family he has been asked to send data to in his work which is nearly done, must be closed without the records in question.
Many new faces were noticed this year, among them brides and bridegrooms and those soon to be, of whom might be named Stanley H. Southwell, of Middletown, who married Miss Ina Bull in 1921; Mr. VanTassel, of Mitchell, S. D.; Miss Mae Copley, of Bloomingburg; and Miss Ruth Miller, of Poughkeepsie, and Miss Riesburg, fiancee of Walter D. Bull of New York city.
Mrs. Murray W. Seagears, of Bloomingburg, and Col. Thomas Durland Landon, of Bordentown, N. J., were among those in attendance, who are not often present.
Those present viewed with great interest the antiques collected in the house. Two recent additions to the collection received special attention; one the gift of Robert O. Thompson, of Blooming Grove, was a certificate of honorary membership, taken out in the name of his father, from the gift of a wooden wagons springs, the other of Joseph Board, of Blooming Grove, were thought of, and the other a pair iron teeth from a corn harrow, of the pre-war records committee, consisting of Mrs. Annie A. Bull, of Middletown; Mrs. J. W. Canfield, of Newburgh; Mrs. Lillian Bull, of Poughkeepsie; Mrs. C. W. Harlow, Jr., of Stony Ford, and Miss Dolly W. Booth, of Campbell Hall, had arranged in one of the rooms the photographs of some of the descendants of William Bull and Sarah Wells that they had received. It is hoped that the records and pictures of the others will soon be sent in.
At the business meeting after luncheon the treasurers report was read, showing that the mortgage on the homestead had been redeemed there-would, with the cash now on hand, be less than $2,500 still to be raised to pay off all indebtedness on the Stone House, and the grounds of the association for all which $1,500 was paid.
Mrs. John J. Parliman, of Pine Bush, a descendant of Eleanor Bull Weller, the youngest child of William Bull and Sarah Wells, personally presented to the secretary, three valuable books containing Bull family records.
Births, marriages and deaths occurring since the picnic of 1921 were read as follows:
Births. Mary June Ivory, Oct. 31, 1921, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest P. Ivory, of Goshen. James Haggerty and Charles Glover McNeiece, twins sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. McNeiece, of Goshen, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1921. Marjorie Elizabeth Howell, Feb. 8, 1922, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Howell, of Brooklyn. John Wilson Morgan, April 23, 1922, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Morgan, of Hartford, Conn. Townsend Bull Garrigus, July 23, 1922, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Garrigus, of Hartford, Conn. Ruth Helene Roe, Aug. 9, 1922, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seeley Roe, Chester. Stephen Hatfield Finley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer S. Finley, of Newburgh. William Dietrich Conklin, April 17, 1922, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Conklin, of Middletown. Harry A. Sinclaire, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy Sinclaire, of Rutherford, N. J.
Marriages. Sept. 3, 1921, Emily Grace Bull and William Shaw, of Middletown. Oct. 20, 1921, Margaret Jackman and E. Norman Bull, of Poughkeepsie. Nov. 23, 1921, Mrs. Douglas Dick, formerly Miss Margaret Jackson, of Chester, and John J. Ireland, of Goshen. Feb. 11, 1922, Dorothy Martha Brough and John Ireland Brush, both of New York. April 25, 1922, Marion Decker and Harrison Shaw, of Circleville. April 25, 1922, Marjorie Thompson, of Harriman, and James E. Carter, of Portland, Ore. May 18, 1922, Kathryn Elizabeth Webb and Herbert Edson Coleman, of Jersey City. June 17, 1922, Nellie Vail, of near Middletown, and Herbert Laird Harlow, of Crystal Run. June 29, 1922, Dorothy Bull, of Blooming Grove, and Edward Barhyte Wright, of New York city. June 29, 1922, Frances Hoyt Bogert, of Keswick, Va., and Douglas Westmore Crosby, of New York city. June 30, 1922, Florence Walz and Walter Calvin Hiscock, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Aug. 22, 1922, Alfred Weller Slaughter, of Crystal Run, and Edna Slaughter, of Crystal Run, and Alfred J. Slater, of Pine Bush.
Deaths. Bevier, Louis Hasbrouck, Brooklyn. Mrs. Cecelia Weller, widow of John S. Bull, 17 Little Ave., Middletown. Sarah Harriet Chamberlain, wife of George A. Yonkers. Martha Bull, Glen Cove. Davis, Mark H., Harrison. Eugene Horton Dolson, Muscatine, Iowa. John E. Duryea, Pine Bush. Lefferts Suydam, Short Hills, N. J. Mrs. Julia B. Bull, wife of George M. Bull, of Middletown. Peter Eager Miller, Orlando, Fla. Louis Mowbray, 874 Carroll street, Brooklyn. Phoebe B. Bull, sister of Mrs. Garret Van Vliet, of Kingston. Mrs. Julia S. Slater, wife of Alexander Thompson, Washington, D. C. Miss Lucia Thompson, of Washington, D. C. James Frazer, Newburgh. Alton J. Vail, Middletown. John J. Vanderoef, Montgomery. Mrs. Anna Josephine VanWinkle, of Middletown. Bull Youngs, Monroe. Mrs. Emily McDanels, and Mrs. Oliver
... In over half a century the usual weather was changed for the Bull family picnic, and instead of the family picnic, and adding a great and pleasant breeze to gathered a bit late to make the 1922 picnic a great success. Through the personal of the attendants each year by varies by scores, Ebenezer Bull, of Stony Ford, who was one of the members of the family who had instituted the reunions, had since become the central figures around whom the gatherings revolve. Especially it is true since the Association had purchased the Bull homestead, and the feeling was had there. There are certain families who are always present, such as the J. Wells Bull family, and the Charles Thews, of Campbell Hall; the Jesse Booths, of Campbell Hall; the Jesse Bulls, of Bullville; Miss Elizabeth Bull and Bull and Mary H. Bull, of Washingtonville; the Jesse Rosos, Albert Thompson; Miss Cornelia, of Chester; Jesse Bull and his husband, of Stony Ford; and the Durland family, George Slaughter and Raymond Ackery, of Crystal Run; the Dayton family, of Stony Ford; and the Garrison family, of Stony Ford; the Misses Martha and Mary G. Bull, of Highland Mills. As long as there are any members of these families in Orange County there will be reunions. There are also hundreds of others who come from time to time as their affairs and the weather may permit. There are still others who by reason of age and infirmity, but seldom attend. Among the latter present this year was Howard Wallace, of Newburgh, now 87, 46 years ago. Ed. Connolly is a grandson of the late Dr. John Johnston, who died in 1865, after having been a physician in the county for 60 years. He was at the first picnic, but had missed many years. Another who was present this year was H. Walsh, of Philadelphia, who had not been on since 1898, many years ago. Among the former a distance this year whose particular pleasure it was to see oldtime friends, was Mrs. Murray Hunter, of Waupun, Wis., formerly Emily Duryea, of Pine Bush. Mrs. Hunter was particularly pleased, as he had been an ever familiar figure in Orange county and that of Mrs. George M. Bull, his sister, of Kingston, caused another noticeable gap in the registration of those who have never missed a picnic from the last reunion. Other attendees of years before who were from last year, and it was unanimously voted to make no change. The election of officers was reported in Thursday's Times-Press.