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300 attend 61st Bull PicnicEntry/Object ID
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Bull Picnic, BSH AssociationScope and Content
Nearly 300 Answer Roll At 61st Bull Reunion Members Give Fund To Lift Mortgage From Old Stone House At Hamptonburgh; Mortgage Burning Ceremony Set for Picnic Next Year; Mrs. Gardner Oldest Present
Head Bull Family Society (Caption under photo): This photograph shows those members of the Board of Managers of the William Bull and Sarah Wells Association who were present at the Bull Picnic held at the Stone House, Hamptonburgh, Wednesday. They are: Left to right, Harry C. Bull of Chester, Miss Mary Thompson of Hamptonburgh, Mrs. Fred Roe of Chester, Hamlet S. Roe, president of Blooming Grove, Mrs. George H. Wilson of Ridgewood, N. J., and Robert N. Jackson of Campbell Hall, secretary.
The sixty-first annual Bull family picnic was held at the Stone House, Hamptonburgh, Wednesday. Nearly three hundred members of the family, including young and old, from all parts of the East were present. A basket luncheon was served at one o’clock and the meeting of the William Bull and Sarah Wells Association was held at two.
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At a meeting of the Board of Managers, the following officers were elected for the year: President H. S. Roe of Blooming Grove; vice president, Mrs. Lillian Bull Wait of Newburgh; treasurer, E. M. Bull of Monroe; secretary, Robert Jackson of Campbell Hall.
At the meeting of the association, the following were elected to the Board of Managers: Ernest Bull, Harry Bull, and Mrs. Lillian Bull.
Mrs. S. D. Gochenour of Staunton, Va., was awarded the ribbon for coming the greatest distance to the picnic. Mrs. Mary Gardner, ninety years old, of Middletown was the oldest person present.
Among those present from distant places were: Mrs. Nellie Pitt, of Washington, D. C., Miss Rachel Farrington, of Lakewood, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Link, of Pittsburgh, Pa., J. W. Booth, of Scranton, Miss Jane H. Bull, of Brooklyn, Mrs. S. D. Gochenour, and Miss Carolyn Gochenour, of Staunton, Va., Howard W. Connelly, of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Goldsmith, of Astoria, L. I., and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bull, of Brooklyn, George H. Wilson, of Ridgewood, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Harold Everett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Everett, of West New York, N. J., Mrs. Theodore Welles, of Paterson, Willie Sheldon Bull, of Buffalo, and James V. Bull, of Easton, Pa.
The following are the births, deaths, and marriages of the Bull family, known to Robert Jackson, the secretary, since August 31, 1927.
Births: Audrey Adele, daughter of Mary Lally and Wells Christie, of Yonkers, Donald William, son of Cornelia Kane and William Rowe, of Montgomery, Theodore Seamon, of Gilbertville, N. Y., Arthur Everett, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Smith, of New Brunswick, Canada, Martha Alida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schriver, of Chester, Phoebe Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Conklin, of Chester, Patricia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson, of Cheswick, Pa., Franklyn Fish, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Fish, of Middletown, Greta Jean, daughter of T. W. Beyea, of Canada, Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ringling, of Campbell Hall, Mrs. William Garrigas, of Waterbury, Conn., Natalie Georgette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McBride, of Walden, Samuel W. Morton, of Washingtonville, Miss Annie Miller Clark, of Westfield, N. J., Kenneth D. Niven, of Monticello, Daniel Booth Van Alst, of Montgomery, William F. Cooper, of Coldenham, N. Y., Augustus H. Harlow, of Montgomery, Mrs. James H. Bull, of Coindale, Mary Jane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Patch, of Philadelphia, Joan Leveritt, daughter of Cambridge, Mass., Martha Jane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Ridge, Agnes B. Hawkins, of Coldenham, N. Y., William H. Strong, of Goshen, Margaret Bull, Isabella Jordan, of Field, N. J., Frances Bull Gibson, of New York.
Marriages: Carolyn Coleman to George Luff, Jr., both of Goshen, Jean Betts, of Waukesha, Wisc., to Wilder Spaulding, A. Russell Roe to Florence C. Stevens, both of Chester, Gladys Blake to George M. Matthews, both of Maybrook, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth Sherwood Sparrow to George Wilson, both of Ridgewood, N. J., Pierson Booth of Campbell Hall, to Helen Collier, of Corinth, Miss., Dorothy Chandler, of New York, Henry Chamberlain to Gladys Wagner, both of Yonkers, Carrie Bull to James S. Kerr, both of Monroe, Dorothy Clary, to Dorothy Macdonald, of Brooklyn, Cora Millis to Roy Parker, both of Middletown, Alice Brooks, of Monroe, to Thomas Sharp-town, to Lilla Richman, of Sharptown, N. J., Hilda Jamison to Walter Schauer, both of Pine Bush, N. Y., Harry Bull, of Montgomery, to Charlotte Colever, of Amenia, N. Y., Jesse Booth, of Campbell Hall, to Winifred Brown, Katrina Bager, of Neelytown, to Clarence Burnett, Birmingham, William Lodge, of Birmingham, William Lodge, of man, of Goshen, to Charles W. Carmen, of Chester, Karl Beyea, of New Brunswick, Canada, to Phoebe M. Hopper, both great great great great grandchildren of William Bull and Sarah Wells, Corinna Bull, of Stony Ford, to Louis Brown, of Montgomery, and Howard Hewitt, of Montgomery, to Hazel Reeve, of Newburgh.
Deaths: Mrs. Margaret B. Horton, of Washingtonville, Miss Annie Miller Clark, of Westfield, N. J., Kenneth D. Niven, of Monticello, Daniel Booth Van Alst, of Montgomery, William F. Cooper, of Coldenham, N. Y., Augustus H. Harlow, of Montgomery, Mrs. James H. Bull, of wick, George Waldo Dickerson, of Thompson Ridge, Abner Bull Hurtin, of Middletown, Abner Smith, of Odessa, N. Y., Rev. Raymond Hoyt Stearns, of Campbell Hall, Isabella Jordan, of York city; Mattias Clark of Westfield, N. J.; Dr. Alexander Horton, of Meadville, Pa., Manzer D. Smith, of New Brunswick, Miss Elizabeth E. Horton, of New York City, John Morgan, of Denver, Col.
[Caption for Photograph] This photograph shows those members of the Board of Managers of the William Bull and Sarah Wells Association who were present at the Bull Picnic held at the Stone House, Hamptonburgh, Wednesday. They are: Left to right, Harry C. Bull of Chester, Miss Charles Thew of Hamptonburgh, Mrs. Fred Roe of Chester, Hamlet S. Roe, president of Blooming Grove, Mrs. George H. Wilson of Ridgewood, N. J., and Robert N. Jackson of Campbell Hall, secretary.Relationships
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