71st Bull Reunion Middletown Times Herald

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71st Bull Reunion "Middletown Times Herald"

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Middletown Times Herald Directors of Bull Family Association at Picnic 300 Bull Family Members Visit Home of Ancestors . . . Directors of the William Bull & Sarah Wells Family Association, Inc., pictured yesterday are: Ernest M. Bull, Blooming Grove (left); Mrs. Amy Bull Crist, Montgomery; Robert McLeod Jackson, New York; Alfred Booth, Campbell Hall; Harry C. Bull, Chester. Missing from the picture were Directors Jesse Zabriskie, Hackensack, N. J., and Harry Bull of Campbell Hall.—Photos by Rosa. HAMPTONBURGH — The 216 year-old stone walls of the house William Bull built in 1722 for his bride, Sarah Wells, reputedly the first white woman to settle in what is now Goshen Township echoed with the seventy-first reunion of the couple's descendants yesterday. While scores of children played lawn games, heard stories or danced in the ancient barn, their elders were Miss Fannie P. Montgomery, Montgomery to her third term as Association president, and hailed Mrs. Eleanor Jackson and Miss Anne Wilson as the most distant visitors. They arrived by airplane here from Felton, Cal. Monroe Woman Oldest Present To Mrs. King David Bull of Monroe, eighty-eight, went the honor of oldest relative present, and to Little Allan Wells Family Association of Mr. and Mrs. Pierson Booth of Warwick, went that of youngest. Miss Sarah A. Smith of Central Valley, was another octogenarian present, at eighty-six. Other officers elected at a directors' meeting after the open session, were Hamlet S. Roe, Chester, vice president; Robert McLeod Jackson, New York, Secretary; Ernest M. Bull, Monroe, treasurer. For trustees, the family chose Alfred Booth of Campbell Hall, Mrs. Crist and Mr. Jackson. Also nominated were Miss Fannie P. Montgomery, Thomas Bull, Benedict of Warwick and Charles W. Thew of Campbell Hall. The two Californians, who arrived at Newark Airport two days ago and planned to visit in the East before returning, were not the only distant travelers present, however. Chester Merrill Hunter and his brother, Henry Kenneth Hunter came from Roswell, New Mexico; Miss Emma Waterwall and her niece, Miss Mary Pemberton, arrived en route to Houston, Texas, after a tour of Europe; Major Alexander MacNabb Bull and his daughter, came from Fort Belvoir, Va. The Bulls heard a report that another branch of the family had organized on the Maine-Canadian border this year, with sixty-nine descendants of William Bull's grandson, Capt. George Bull, meeting at Presque Isle, Maine, August seventeenth. The meetings are planned to alternate groups in between Presque Isle, and Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. It was Capt. George Bull, son of John Bull, who lent his support to the British during the Revolution and consequently joined the English settlement in New Brunswick at conclusion of the war. Drives Horse to Picnic Through the afternoon the children played under direction of Miss Mildred Hagan, recreation consultant, of the Mid-City Club, New York. Dixie Ann Booth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pierson Booth of Warwick, brought her pony, and Culver Bull, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bull of Hamptonburgh, drove a horse to the picnic. Both animals had a busy day giving rides to dozens of young cousins of their owners. The Association adjourned until August thirtieth, 1939. Two of Number Reach SeventyFirst Reunion After Flight From California Oldest of the descendants of William Bull and Sarah Wells present at the seventy-first family picnic yesterday was Mrs. King David Bull, eighty-eight, of Monroe.

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