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92 Reunion Aug 1959 Annual PicnicEntry/Object ID
002044Tags
William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
This newspaper clipping from the Times Herald (Middletown, N.Y.), dated Monday, August 24, 1959, details the 92nd annual reunion of the descendants of William Bull and Sarah Wells.
Here is a summary of the event:
Event Overview
Location: The historic Bull Stone House (built in 1722) near Goshen, NY.
Attendance: 234 registered family members and approximately 50 guests attended the picnic.
Key Figures: The house was maintained by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown, who were commended for keeping the 18th-century structure in "shipshape" condition.
Notable Attendees
Oldest Member: Mrs. Sarah Wells Bull Wells, age 94, of Newburgh. She was awarded a blue ribbon for this distinction.
Youngest Member: Amy Coulter, born June 26, 1959 (just two months old at the time).
Longest Distance Traveled: * Alton Nance traveled from Houston, Texas.
The "Oklahoma Four": Lyman Hobbs, Horace S. Young, Mrs. Jessica White, and Mrs. Catherine Collins made a three-day trip from Oklahoma to attend.
Family Business & Records
Genealogy: Miss Dolly W. Booth, the official family genealogist, reported that she is working on a new, single-volume record of the family history, which was expected to take another year to complete.
Elections: Robert McLeod Jackson was re-elected as secretary, and Henry P. Bull was re-elected as treasurer.
Photographic Highlights
The article features a photo of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vogelbach and their children, Marjorie and Charles, saying grace before the picnic.
Another photo shows the four family members who traveled from Oklahoma standing on the steps of the ancestral stone house.