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59th Annual Bull Family Picnic, August 29, 1926Entry/Object ID
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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
Overview of the Event
The article details the 59th Annual Family Picnic of the Bull family, a massive genealogical gathering held in Hamptonburgh, New York. Because of unsettled weather, the event was held in the Hamptonburgh Grange building. Attendees gathered from numerous locations across the United States and Canada (including New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and New Brunswick) to celebrate their shared ancestry.
Key Highlights & Activities
Tributes and Remembrance: The gathering heavily reflected on the loss of prominent family members who had passed away since the last picnic, including Ebenezer Bull of the "Stone House," Jesse Booth, Henrietta Coleman Bull, Capt. Wm. H. D. Blake, Matie C. Mould, and Roberta Hurtin Harlow. Large portrait photographs of Ebenezer Bull and his wife were displayed.
Greetings from Afar: A formal letter of greeting was read from Andrew S. Beyea of New Brunswick. Other long-distance greetings were acknowledged from family members in South Carolina, California, Wisconsin, and New Jersey.
Business Meeting: * Financials: The treasurer, Ernest M. Bull, reported that the family endowment fund (started the previous year) grew from $109.33 to $141.00.
Elections: Frances A. Roe was elected as a manager to succeed Caroline Bull Knight. Harry C. Bull and Hamlet S. Roe were also elected as managers. The existing Picnic Committee, chaired by Bartow Wright Bull, was entirely reelected.
Gift to the Association: Mrs. Alexander Thompson presented the family association with an antique ox yoke that was currently being manufactured.
Notable Attendees: Mention was made of Edgar M. Clarke (over 80 years old and one of the oldest alumni of Union College) and his three-month-old granddaughter, Sarah Ann Clarke, who was the youngest attendee. Mrs. John Harris (86) and Mrs. Emma Lena Zabriskie (past 80) were also highlighted.
1926-1927 Elected Officers
President: Harry Bull (Hamptonburgh)
Vice-President: Elizabeth S. Sparrow (Ridgewood, NJ)
Treasurer: Ernest M. Bull (Blooming Grove)
Secretary: Robert McLeod Jackson (Hamptonburgh)
Assistant Secretary: Mrs. Margaret Dill Hallagan (Campbell Hall)
Vital Statistics (August 1925 – August 1926)
The clipping lists the official births, marriages, and deaths recorded by the family secretary over the prior year.
Births
Key births recorded include children born to the families of:
1924 (Omitted previously): Robert E. Ottman.
1925: Edward Bull, Robert Leslie Towe Jr., Oscar R. Timm, Jesse O. Wilkin, Howard Denton Mills.
1926: Douglas Wetmore Clinch, Wm. H. Van Alst, Clinton Pelham Darlington, Geo. Hunter Thompson, Floyd Johnson, Archibald Campbell Denison, James R. Burnett Jr., Edgar M. Clarke Jr., Wm. Jefferis, Raymond V. Seaman, Frank DuBois, Raymond M. Loeb.
Marriages
Key marriages recorded include:
Jane W. Miller to Robert Allen
Lillian Alice Cooper and Earl Davie
Mary Dale Towe to Dr. Herman Parker
Dorothy Malvina Thew to Everette Harrison Hulse
Murray Franklin Whitaker to Stella Hartz
William Thompson to Mary Field
Cora Jordan and Cornelius Macardell
Pauline Emma Timm to Vernon Albert Bostle
Oliver Goldsmith Carter Jr. to Marian Southwick Simpson
Glendora Beyea to Merritt W. Hill
Weston Winifred Phillips to Capt. Patrick Wooten (Royal British Navy)
Marguerite Louise Weston to Geo. Washington Afflerbach
Amy Pearsall Bull to Clarence Herman Crist
Deaths
Key deaths recorded include:
1925 (Omitted previously): Sarah Thompson Crawford.
1925: Bertha Beattie Ross, William Edgar Bump (age 90), Mary Frances Wells Coleman, Jona R. Brooks, James H. McMonagle, Henrietta Coleman Bull.
1926: Margaret Miller, Miss Anna L. Roy, Miss Anna Thompson, Miss Jessie Thompson, Miss Matie C. Mould, Dr. John Leverett (Latin professor at Vassar), Sarah Frances Boyd, Ebenezer Bull (age 81), Nathan J. White (age 69), Oscar R. Timm, Roberta Hurtin Harlow, Lieut. Commander Edward Allen (killed in a naval arsenal explosion in Dover, NJ), Wm. H. Blake, Jesse Booth, Mary Lovell McComb, Harvey Dolsen, John W. Bull, Henry Artemas Bull, and Mrs. S. Albert Bull.
