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109th Bull PicnicEntry/Object ID
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Bull PicnicScope and Content
AMY BULL CRIST ENJOYS TALKING WITH YOUNGSTERS
. . . 800 joined the family picnic Saturday
Photo by John Duvoli
Bull Family Invites 4,000
HAMPTONBURGH - Summer is the perfect time of year for family reunions, renewed friendships, and fun in the sun. But how many families do you know who invited 4,000 family members to their picnics?
The Bull family, one of the area’s oldest and most prestigious, does. A close check on the whereabouts of each person in some way a Bull or Bull relative is kept up to date, and, once a year, invitations are sent to each.
While Amy Bull Crist did not expect all 4,000 to come to the 109th family reunion Saturday she did estimate that 800 would attend. The event, as is family tradition, was held at Bull Stone House off Hamptonburgh Road.
Michael K. Brown, said his “mother was a Bull,” then added with a smile, “put that in the paper and people will look twice.” He and his wife Betty, are the current residents of Bull Stone House.
T. Emmett Henderson, a Middletown book publisher, also a member of the Bull family, displayed several of his publication books dealing with the history of the Mid-Hudson area and is writing a semi-biographical book on the family.
Mrs. Crist said that the 109th annual reunion had a special meaning in this, the bicentennial year.
Henderson said that he estimates that there are 20,000 Bull descendents world-wide. Of this number, 4,000 have expressed interest in keeping in touch with the family and receive invitations to the annual picnic.
The Bull family descends from William Bull and Sarah Wells, who were the first white settlers in this area. The Bulls had 12 children, from which derive the 20,000 family members of today.
