Name/Title
93rd Annual Bull Reunion & Land O' Goshen bookEntry/Object ID
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Bull PicnicScope and Content
'Land O' Goshen' Published; Predict
Second Printing (Photo of Miss Elizabeth Sharts)
MISS ELIZABETH SHARTS
Land O' Goshen Then and Now, by Elizabeth Sharts - a history
of Goshen town and village and the precinct which once encompassed much of Orange County was published this week and has already had a sale that presages a second printing.
Hundreds of orders from all over the nation have been received for the book, which, in text, pictures and sketches made especially for the volume, presents the story of Goshen from its very beginning to the present.
Miss Sharts has been official historian of the town and village
of Goshen since the office was established in 1946, and this is
her second book, both of which celebrate her home town. Her
first book, Cradle of the Trotter, published in 1946, has had world-
wide sale and popularity, especially in Australia.
As in her earlier book, Miss Sharts had the collaboration of
Mildred Parker Seese, Goshen researcher, genealogist, historical writer and newspaperwoman. Both books were published by The Bookmill, which Mrs. Seese has continued since the death of her husband, George L. Seese.
Roscoe W. Smith, Monroe, sponsored the publication.
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Bulls Hold 93rd Annual Reunion
Earl Dickerson was elected president of the Bull Family
Association, replacing fellow Thompson Ridge resident the
Rev. Charles Beattie Thompson, at the association's 93rd annual
meeting Saturday at the family's original stone house headquarters.
Rev. Thompson was named president emeritus. Chester Roe
was elected vice president in place of Mr. Dickerson. Edward
D. Decker was re-elected and a new officer, Mrs. Dorothy Brush,
were named to the board of managers, the latter in place of
Charles F. Johnson Jr.
The 250 descendants of the Sarah Wells and William Bull
marriage, some of them strangers to each other, had the opportunity to become acquainted by means of a novel circulating reception line.
A prize was awarded to
Thomas Slaughter, the member
attended from the farthest place Hawaii.
Genealogist Miss Dolly Booth reported that she is making progress in bringing family records up to date.
(Photo showing five individuals holding a book)
Independent Republican Photo
FAMILY HISTORY - At the Bull Family picnic Saturday about 250 descendants of Sarah Wells and William Bull held their annual meeting and reunion. Always at home in the historic stone Bull house on Sarah Wells Trail is the Louis Brown family, who manage the estate. Here, Mr. and Mrs. Brown
(she is the former Corinne Bull) get a first look at a new Goshen history book which contains a chapter on the Sarah Wells-William Bull story. Mrs. Mildred Parker Seese, left, is editor and publisher of the history, Land O' Goshen, authored by Goshen historian Miss Elizabeth Sharts. In the center are
two of the four Brown children, William Bull and Mary Ann Brown.