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1923 Bull picnic Cont'dEntry/Object ID
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Bull PicnicScope and Content
Slaughter, Eugene W., of Crystal Run, N. Y., to Anna Whitaker, of Rio, N. Y., June 6, 1923. Fescoe, Joseph, to Anna May Blake, both of Maybrook, N. Y., June 18, 1923. Courter, J. Kenneth, of Blooming Grove, to Edna Millicent Brooks, of Monroe, N. Y., June 27, 1923. Bull, Walter Dean, to Bessie Riesberg, both of New York city, June 2, 1923. Gregory, Rev. John Lester, to Esther Mould, of Middletown, N. Y., April 2, 1923. Deaths, omitted from 1922 list: Boughner, LeRoy J., of Chicago, on June 7, 1922; husband of Genevieve Jackson. Hurtin, Miss Addie D., of Middletown, N. Y., January 12, 1922. Flocken, Mrs. Mina Gale, of Maplewood, N. J., February, 1921. Allen, Martha, October, 1921. Crotty, Mrs. Pauline Bull, March 27, 1922. Winslow, Mrs., of Woodstock, N. B., April 1922. Deaths since August 30, 1922: Bull, Alfred Weller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on November 6, 1922. Hawkins, Hannah Lena, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on November 6, 1922. White, James Madison, of Crystal Run, N. Y., on November 25, 1922. Eager, Mrs. Samuel W., of Neely- town, N. Y., on November 30, 1922. Fulton, Albert, of New York city, on December 16, 1922. Roeb, John H., of Newburgh, N. Y., on December 10, 1922. Wanty, Henry G., of Los Angeles, Calif. Roe, Dorothea Ann, of Chester, N. Y. Mould, William S., of Montgomery, N. Y., on December 27, 1922. Barnes, Mildred Thompson, of Camden, N. J., on January 25, 1923. Mills, Esther A., of Middletown, N. Y., on March 1, 1923. Eager, Mary S., of Montgomery, N. Y., on March 23, 1923. Twamley, Mary Elizabeth, of New York city, on April 3, 1923. Hewitt, John H., of Montgomery, N. Y., on April 18, 1923. Wilson, Edmund, of Redbank, N. J., on May 15, 1923. Weller, Isabella Eadie, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on May 19, 1923. Haines, Miss Susanna, of Honesdale, Pa. Church, Arthur L., of New Bern, N. C., on June 10, 1923. Kuykendall, Katherine Milliken Anderson (Mrs. Alvin T.), of Newburgh, N. Y., on May 12, 1923. Hunter, Murray, of Waupun, Wis., husband of Emily Duryea. Bull, Iola Horton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., March, 1923. Woodruff, Mrs. Caroline Bull, of Roanoke, Va., January 17, 1923, in the 82nd year of her age. Smith, Mrs. Abner G., of Odessa, N. Y., April 10, 1923, in the 85th year of her age. Thornton, Mrs. Mary E., of Ridgewood, N. J., August, 1923. Bull, Mrs. Emerson T., of Sayre, Pa., January 18, 1923. Bull, Charles A., March 31, 1923. The managers whose terms of office expired this year were re-elected, viz: Mrs. Clarence S. Knight, and Messrs. Hamlet S. Roe, of Chester, and Harry C. Bull, of New York. The officers were re-elected as follows: President-Charles M. Bull. Vice-President-Mrs. Knight. Treasurer-Ernest M. Bull, of Blooming Grove. Secretary-Robert McLeod Jackson, of the town of Hamptonburgh. The other members of the Board of Managers are Harry Bull, of Hampton- burgh; Lillian Bull, of Chester, and Charles W. Slaughter, of Babylon, N. Y. The 1922 picnic committee was re-elected with the addition of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ackerly. The other members of the committee are: Bartow Wright Bull, chairman, John C. Thew, Henry Bull, William Bull, VII, Charles Johnson, Dolly Watkins Booth, Russell Hallock, William Roe Conklin, Jr. and Mark Roe. Mrs. Henrietta Boeringer Coleman, of Hamptonburgh, was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Association. The Westchester Bulls were unusually well represented, including four sons and two daughters of the late Ebenezer Bull, of Somerville, and Clara Roe, of Chester, viz: William R. Bull, of Portchester, who with his wife and daughter, Ruth, came over from their summer place at Great Barrington, Mass.; Frederick H. Bull and Mrs. Bull, of Mamaroneck; Ebenezer Bull and his two sisters, Bessie Y. Bull and Julia Bull Davis, all of Harrison, as well as Mrs. Davis's daughters, the Misses Emily and Clara. The fourth brother is Charles M. Bull, of Poughkeepsie, the president of the Association, who was present with his son, Major Harold R. Bull, of West Point, who has just been transferred to Honolulu, where he goes with his wife and two children in a few days. His sisters, the Misses Clara and Dorothy Bull, were also present. This group with other members of it have valiantly put their shoulders to the wheel in the matter of acquiring the Stone House; in fact they all strongly advocated such a step when it was not on the cards at all. Another large family group is that composed of the descendants of the late William Bull, V, of Stony Ford. His three sons, Ebenezer, Jr., Harry and Bartow Wright, with their wives and all but one of their 12 children, were present, as also their sister, Sal- lie, Mrs. Chas. W. Wells, of New Paltz, and her daughter, Helen, and two of her grandchildren, Martha and Catherine Parry, of Highland Falls, N. Y. Among this group also was Mrs. Charles W. Harlow, Jr., of Stony Ford, who was present with her husband and two children. Mrs. George W. Dickerson, of Thompson Ridge, was also in attendance with several of her nine children and some of her grandchildren. These phalanx-like families are at once the admiration and despair of those who must come in twos and threes, not to mention singly. Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper, of Bullville, have 13 children, the record family, it is believed, even in that point passing William Bull and Sarah Wells by one. Mrs. Cooper is descended from William and Sarah's youngest child, Eleanor, who married Henry Weller, of Montgomery. While the various families are great supports to the Association differences of viewpoint within them often cause much amusement, one small group containing a member sometimes laughingly referred to as a family al- tar and another member who furnishes the railing. Great credit is due to the picnic committee for their efficient arrangements for the day. Special mention should be made of the good work of Miss Dolly Watkins Booth, who arranged the photographs of those who had been in service in the late war, besides working on the picnic and social committees. John C. Thew, of Hamptonburgh, oversaw the meeting of all trains and the many who came that way were met without a hitch. Mr. Thew counted 80 automobiles and allowing for those that came in other ways, estimated that there were at least 350 people present. Messrs. W. D. Van Vliet & Son, of Goshen, very kindly donated camp stools, adding much to the comfort of the occasion. Photographs of the gathering were taken and copies 8x10, properly mounted, may be obtained on request from Albert Mounter, 5 West 125th street, New York city, at 80 cents each, postage prepaid.Relationships
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