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Bull Picnic August 1949 - reprinted 1869 picnic photoEntry/Object ID
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Bull PicnicScope and Content
Sept 1. 1949
N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1949
350 Attend 82nd Annual Bull Reunion
HAMPTONBURGH - The 82nd annual Bull family reunion and picnic was attended by over 350 descendants of the family at the old homestead on Wednesday afternoon. Cadwell Tyler of Goshen, was reelected president of the organization known as the William Bull - Sarah Wells Association.
Other officials reelected were Miss Laura Craft of Chester, vice president; Robert Jackson, Campbell Hall, secretary, and Myron Bull of New York City, treasurer. Mrs. Corinna Bull Brown of Campbell Hall, and Silas Patterson, of Monroe, were reelected as members of the board of directors, while Mrs. Sarah Wells Duffy of New York, was elected to this board.
Traveling the longest distance to attend the annual event was Mrs. Harry Sinclaire of Honolulu. She was awarded the blue ribbon significant of the honor. The youngest person attending was Linda Ann Bull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Culver Bull of Sarah Wells Trail, while the oldest in attendance was Mrs. Elizabeth Bull Greene of Sidney, N. Y., who is 85 years old.
Due to the large attendance the business session was held in the old barn
that year fell on Wednesday. Furthermore, the register of the 1869 picnic party included the Terbells of Walden and their granddaughter, Louise. The 1869 picnic was the second in the annual series that next week will reach 82, and it was the first time the large family group was photographed.
Although it is 80 years since the picture was made, at least one who appears in it is still living, Miss Cornelia Hawkins of Rutherford, N. J. Neither she nor the Terbell child were among the little girls in pantalettes standing so primly in the front row. Miss Hawkins, then a baby, is in the arms of a woman near the center of the picture; and Louise, also a small child, appears in the back row, but there is a question about the identity of the man holding her. Mr. Libenow was under the impression she was held up to view by her grandfather, but one or two persons who remember him say the man holding the child is not Mr. Terbell of Walden.
For the second picnic, as for those of this era when travel is much easier, Bulls came from afar as well as from nearby for a day with other Bulls. Only about half the 160 at the 1869 picnic appear in the picture. The entire roster, copied by Mr. Jackson with faithful adherence to the old and erratic spellings, follows:
Jesse Bull, Oxford Depot; Rich'd H. Bull, New York; Jno. McBride, Camble Hall; George Conning, Campbell Hall; John M. Bull, Monroe; Samuel W. Eager, Sophia M. Eager, William H. Pierson, Lizzie Pierson, Anna B. Weekes, Joseph C. Eager, David H. Booth, all Hamptonburgh; Alanson T. Sears, Montgomery; Sarah J. Connelly, Mary A. Connelly, Henry M. Connelly, all Newburgh; Helen A. Whitmore, Boston, Mass.; Bertie J. Spaulding, Newburgh; Elizabeth Hawkins, Montgomery; Mary Ann Booth, Campbell Hall; Will D. Spalding, Newburgh; Milton Bull, David C. Bull, Horace Bull, all Bullville; Nathaniel Conkling, Mahala Conkling, G. M. Newman, J. R. Newman, all Middletown; W. H. Newman, Daniel H. Bull, both Hampton; James C. Bull, Coldenham; Ira, Bull, Chester; Sam'l S. Bull, Monroe; Jas. M. Bull, Chester; Anna H. Sears, Matilda H. (?) Mowbray, Montgomery; Horace Booth, Mo (?); Sarah I. Bull, Bullville; Ida B. Copley, New York City; J. Erskine Crawford, Bullville; Samuel C. Brush, Martha T. Brush, New York City; Matilda B. Booth, Campbell Hall; Moses B. Miller, Wallkill; Isaac V. Wheeler, Phoebe A. Wheeler, Juliett P. Wheeler, Carrie B. Wheeler, Mary B. Harlow, Annie M. Harlow, James W. Harlow, all Warwick; Mary (?) L. Spaulding, Newburgh; Richard B. Roy, Hannah M. Roy, Warwick; John N. Roy, Mary Roy, Sarah J. Roy, all Cleveland; Franklin Bull, Ann E. Bull, Anna M. Bull, all Blooming Grove; Mary A. Bull, Monroe; Clara Roe, Mary C. Roe, Chester.
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Sarah J. Smith, Goshen; John P. (?) Bull, Mrs. Minerva Bull, Bullville; Mary E. Bull, Blooming Grove; Sarah A. Purcell, Monroe; Susan C. Bull, Oxford Depot; Hannah L. Bull, Mary A. Bull, Chester; Josephus Terbell, Hilah Terbell, Walden; William Purcell, Monroe; Ebenezer Bull, Hamptonburgh; Milton F. Bull, Cecelia G. (?) Bull, Esther E. Bull, Bullville; Milton C. Bull, Coldenham; Ruth C. Bull, Bloomingburgh; Anna S. Connelly, Jane J. Connelly, Virginia Connelly, E. L. Upright, Newburgh; Daniel Mould, Lettie B. Mould, Milton B. Mould, Mary C. Mould, Montgomery; Martha M. Van Keuren, Newburgh.
Phebe E. Bull, Ida I. Weller, Circleville; Esther Van Keuren, Montgomery; Caroline B. Woodruff, David W. Woodruff, Bull Hack (now Circleville); Anna M. Bull, Newburgh; Mary Esther Mould, Christopher J. Mould, Martha B. Mould, Montgomery; Sarah Jane Bull, Middletown; Emily Bull Youngs, Oxford; Louisa B. Terbell, Walden; Edmund Bull, Rutledge Bull, Charleston, S. C.; Lewis M. Hawkins, Sarah Hawkins, Harry A. Hawkins, Jennie B. Hawkins, Cornelia C. Hawkins, Goshen; A. H. Corwin, Alice I. Corwin, New York; Phebe H. Bull, Chester; Caroline Bull, Charles R. Bull, Hattie N. (?) Bull, Emma L. Bull, Blooming Grove; Rachel C. W. Bull, L. M. Weller, Bullville; Anna L. Bull, Hamptonburgh; Lemma Mould, Christopher Mould, Montgomery; Martha B. Craft, Benjamin W. Craft, Glen Cove, L. I.; Jennie H. Thew, John G. Thew, Hamptonburgh; Elizabeth H. Sears, Montgomery; Anne E. Bull, Goshen; Charles Bull, Newburgh; Charles Bull, New York; Lizzie H. McBride, Campbell Hall; J. E. Bull, New York; Edgar F. Dill, Hamptonburgh.
S. C. Weekes, New York; Abbie Eager, Dr. Wright, Mary A. Wright, William B. Wright, Kate M. Wright, Mrs. Clarkson, Hamptonburgh; Elizabeth R. Clarkson, Woodridge; Helen C. Phillips, New York; Mrs. W. L. Chapman, Newburgh; Mrs. W. B. Andruss, Amboy, Ill.; Charles Wood, Caroline J. Wood, R. Paul Wood, Sarah I. Wood, Middletown; J. Franklin Bull, Bloomingburgh.
Mary B. Mills, near W. B. (?); Amy Bull, Hamptonburgh; William Bull, Phebe Bull, Keturah Bull, Elizabeth Bull, Sarah Wells Bull, William Bull, Ebenezer Bull, Richard Bull, John Conning, Emma Conning, Hamptonburgh; R. H. Bull, Jr., New York City.