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133rd Bull Family Annual PicnicEntry/Object ID
000640Tags
William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
Event Overview
What: The 133rd Annual Bull Family Reunion, titled "Celebration 2000."
When: A 3-day event held from Friday, August 18th to Sunday, August 20th, 2000.
Who: About 500 descendants traveled from as far away as California to attend. The family tracks back to William Bull and Sarah Wells, early pioneers of Orange County who had 12 children, a lineage that has since grown to more than 20,000 descendants.
Daily Activities
Friday: Featured the annual golf outing.
Saturday: A large picnic featuring tours of the homestead, covered wagon rides, and old-time skill demonstrations (including corn husk doll making, tool sharpening on a foot-powered grinding wheel, and tomahawk throwing). It concluded with a group photo and a "never-been-done-before Huge" tribute.
Sunday: Began with a worship service, followed by a historic Bull House bus tour visiting original stone buildings and homes built by William Bull and his descendants throughout Orange County.
Notable Highlights & Features
Margery Bull Jackson: Recognized as the oldest woman at the reunion. At 91 years old (a 7th generation descendant originally from Middletown), she won the Blue Ribbon.
Quilt Project: Sharon Semanovich collected signatures from attendees for a quilt, aiming to gather 2,000 signatures along with each descendant's lineage.
Historical Portrait: The article highlights a self-taught portrait of Phebe Bull (done by Anni Phillips), which was gifted to the stone house. Phebe Bull was born in the stone house and later married William Bull V.