August 1940 The Independent Republican 73rd Bull Picnic

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August 1940 "The Independent Republican" 73rd Bull Picnic

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73rd ANNUAL BULL PICNIC Reckon in decades, come the day before, go the day after, have the free run of a two century-old house and a barn still older; let there be a steady down-pour of rain, with no disconcerting interludes of sunshine to keep you as unsettled as the weather, and you have a perfect recipe for a family picnic. Such was the 73rd annual Bull reunion held as usual on the last Wednesday in August at the Stone House. Many of us expected to gather at the Hamptonburgh Grange Hall, but the Hall had not been unlocked and car after car rolled down to the house. It was just as well. Rain evidently going to rain all day. Hamptonburgh was just where to meet as it was evidently going to rain all day. Hamptonburgh was just where to meet as it was evidently going to rain all day. Hamlet S. Roe, for many years president of the Association, said he did not like to see the party split into two parts, as always happens when we meet at the Grange Hall. Corinna Bull Brown, mistress of the Stone House, was there, having finished her work. Hamlet S. Roe turned the scale and the two hundred and more picnickers formed a happy throng, crowding the ground floor of the house, and overflowing to the other floors, the garage and the barn, where luncheons were spread for scores. When the important noonday refreshment feature had been finished, the children gathered in the barn for games with Miss Mildred Hagan, who has made just such the occasion from Philadelphia, having made an important part of our day for several years. As many of the rest of us as could, crowded into the house, where the business meeting was conducted by Amy Bull Crist, our president. Mrs. Crist has just been elevated from schoolmistress at Goodwill to Superintendent of Schools for the First Supervisory District of Orange County. She delighted the gathering with her gay conduct of the meeting. Referring to the bad weather, she said the Bulls could take it, and called upon Wm. H. Tremper of Middletown to open the proceedings by leading in the singing of "God Bless America." Three managers were elected for a three year term: Ernest M. Bull to succeed himself; Charles W. Slaughter and Henry P. Bull to succeed the latter's father, Harry Bull of Hamptonburgh, who has been a manager since our incorporation in 1921. The new Board of Managers met later in the afternoon and chose their officers for the coming year. Mrs. Crist made an earnest plea to be relieved as president as she has many pressing calls, but she does and we feel what she does she does and we could not reconcile ourselves to losing her at such short notice. She accordingly accepted a reelection by acclamation; Ernest M. Bull and Robert McLeod Jackson were reelected in the same manner as treasurer and secretary; and Henry P. Bull similarly chosen vice-president. Miss Sarah A. Smith of Central Valley, N. Y., aged 88 years, was our oldest member present. She sat in the wide hall and smilingly received her many who congratulated her on her presence. Mrs. Clarence Bull of Cleveland, Ohio, was awarded the blue ribbon for coming the greatest distance. Miss Dolly W. Booth spoke of progress made in adding to the late Stevenson H. Walsh's genealogical records. As usual there were many present who had never come before. Among them were: Mrs. Wm. G. Jones of Greenville, near Wilmington, Del., formerly Mildred Philips, of the line of Thomas, and her husband; Richard Collins and wife, and wife, two-year-old twin daughters, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Helen Johnston Kyte of Wellesley Hills, Mass. and her niece, Lumina Rapelye Johnston of Little Silver, N. J., both descendants of Mary Bull and Dr. John Johnston of Newburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McMonagle of Montgomery and Mrs. Dewitt McMonagle of Stony Ford. Dorothy Patterson Gleason of Drury Lane, N. Y. and her sister, Olga Hoag of Newright, N. Y. Mrs. Clarence Bell and her grandson, Richard Bell of Cleveland. Greetings were received from Mr. and Mrs. John Ireland Brush and the Misses Brush of Hempstead, L. I.; Mrs. Albert Lewis of Jamestown, N. Y.; Anne VanBuren Wolford, of Marion, Ohio; Phebe Bull Kilby of Santa Cruz; Margaret Eleanor and Wm. L. Nave and Rev. Hamilton Jackson of Felton, Calif., and Capt. dren of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. There was dancing in the barn from 3 to 6 p. m. for the young people, at which Marie Ellen Van Tassell of Middletown, was mistress of ceremonies. The picnic's lure was such that people started out in the rain, knowing that it would probably continue all day, and came from various distant places, including Greenville, Del., Little Silver, N. J., Fairfield, Hartford and Great Neck, Piermont, Hartsdale, Poughkeepsie and Deposit, N. Y. The following is a list of family statistics learned by the secretary since the last picnic: Marriages 1940 Jan. 31-COCKS, Charles, of Cornwall, N. Y., to Leon Ellinwood, of Daytona Beach, Fla. Dec. 17-YOUNGBLOOD, Beatrice, of Bloomingburgh, N. Y., to William E. Bennett, of Goshen, N. Y. Dec. 24-WANAMAKER, Cereatha Marion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Wanamaker of , N. B., Canada, to Leslie Robert McLachlan, of , N. B. Dec. 24-ARROWSMITH, William Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Arrowsmith, to Josephine H. Pennell, both of St. John, N. B., Canada. May 18-HALL, Clifford Allan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Haddon Hill of Hampton, N. B., Canada, to Wilma Ruth Mosher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mosher of Nauwigewauk, N. B. May 28-BOUGHNER, Jackson LeRoy, to Jane Ann Kennedy, both of St. Paul, June 22. June 22-BOYD, William Evans (gt. grandson of D. Kerr Bull), of Berkeley, Calif., to Virginia Lee Tompkins of San Jose, Calif. Dec. 8-WEST, Katherine McMonagle, of Middletown, N. Y., wife of Arthur West and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace McMonagle of Newkirk. Dec. 11-SMITH, Horatio Valentine, of Smithtown, N. B., Canada (b. March 20, 1848). Dec. 12-DUNN, Emily Wilkin, wife of Wilfred K. Dunn of Montgomery, N. Y., and daughter of Wm. Wilkin and Carrie McMonagle (descendant of Moses Bull). Feb. 4-Hulse, Everett H., aged 40 years, of the Town of Hamptonburgh, Orange County, husband of Dorothy Thew. Feb. 6-Miller, Rev. Edward Waite, of Gloversville, N. Y., aged 75 years. Feb. 10-Wheeler, Wm. F., of Warwick, N. Y., aged 75 years. Feb. 19-Bull, John Springsted, son of Jean Millspaugh and Richard Bull of Newburgh, N. Y. Jan. 25-Hawkins, Vernon Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hawkins, of Montgomery, N. Y. Jan. 31-Knight, Gertrude T., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knight, of Monroe, N. Y. Feb. 5-Roe, Mary Amy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Roe, of Chester, N. Y. Feb. 8-Sanford, Corinna Furman, daughter of Dorothy Booth Ackerly and John W. Sanford, of Warwick, N. Y. Births 1939 June 11-BROWN, Dorothy Walters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Switzer Brown of Washington, D. C. July 12-SCHOONMAKER, Barbara Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schoonmaker of Melrose, Mass. Oct. -NEWMAN, Mildred Bledsoe, daughter of Cox Collier and J. Wilson Newman of Scarsdale, N. Y. Dec. 20-SCHOONMAKER, Carol Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bullard Schoonmaker of New York City. Dec. 22-HOLLAND, Elaine Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ernest Holland of , N. B., Canada. Dec. 24-GARLAND, Carol Jean, daughter of Muriel Louise Jex and Stuart Brewster Garland of Worcester, Mass. Dec. 26-PATTINGER, Herbert Ernest, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pettinger of , N. B., Canada. Jan. 19-BULL, John S., of Newburgh, N. Y. Jan. 22-BEYEA, Mary Doreen King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ernest Beyea of Rothesay, N. B., Canada. Jan. 25-BEYEA, Hubert Devoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Beyea of Worcester, Mass. Jan. 28-REINHART, Anna May, daughter of Elizabeth Earl and Joseph Reinhart of Orange, N. J. February 7-TOBIN, Julia Estelle, daughter of Charles Whitman Tobin and Mary Lyons, Virginia Niven, daughter of Augusta Niven and James G. Lyons of Monticello, N. Y. February 24-WANAMAKER, Allison Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wanamaker of St. John, N. B., Canada. March 10-LEATHEM, Jocelyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Leathem of Summit, N. J. March 26-LYONS, Virginia Niven, daughter of Augusta Niven and James G. Lyons of Monticello, N. Y. 1940 January 19-BULL, John Albert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hill of Hampton Station, N. B., Canada. July 26-MOTTEN, Roger Henry, Jr., of Weathersfield, Conn., to Marjorie Helen Calnen, of Hartford, Conn. September 1-GEROW, Hallock Horton, to Clara H. Blood of Washingtonville, N. Y. September 10-BLAKE, Marion, of Maybrook, N. Y., to W. Eugene Ross, of Middletown, N. Y. September 16-PFEIFER, Helen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to Richard Jackson, of Boston, Mass. September 20-EAGER, John Leonard, formerly of Montgomery, N. Y., to Jane Louise Wisner, of Olean, N. Y. September -McBRIDE, Barbara, to Allen Sharp, both of Walden, N. Y. October 5-FULTON, Laura Lillian May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fulton, of , N. B., Canada, to Gerard Larose of , N. B. October 6-AYRES, Samuel Benedict, son of Mary Collier and James Benedict Ayres of Warwick, N. Y. Deaths 1939 January 7-EAGER, Sarah Frances Wait, a native of Newburgh, N. Y., widow of Frank E. Eager, died at her home in Howell, Mich., aged 84 years. July 26-BULL, Georgette Haven, wife of Col. E. Llewellyn Bull of White Post, Va. September 14-TOBIN, Guy Morville, of Newark, N. J. September 21-MOULD, Milton Bull, of Middletown, N. Y., born July 6, 1862, son of Daniel and Letitia Bull Mould. September 27-CRAWFORD, Susan Eager, of Glen Ridge, N. J., eldest daughter of the late Wm. B. and Electa C. Crawford. October 1-McCLUNG, Frances Dill, wife of Elliott McClung, of Campbell Hall, N. Y., born August 8, 1879. October 22-LANSING, Dr. Abraham Great, of Los Angeles, Calif., husband of Mary Dennison, aged 63 years. October 31-BULL, Major Charles Caldwell, of New York City, son of the late Alpheus Bull, aged 62 years. November 8-BULL, Lieut.-Col. Edmund Llewellyn, U. S. Army retired, in his 62nd year, of White Post, Va. November 13-OSBORN, Ann Lillian, daughter of John Richard Osborn and Catherine Costello Osborn, of Middletown, N. Y. January 19-BUEL, Maria Victoria Torrilhon, widow of Clarence Clough Buel, at Tucson, Ariz. February 8-PRESTON, Mrs. Carrie E., of Middletown, N. Y., born April 6, 1867. February 19-BULL, Col. John Jarvis, of Wood-

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