Obituaries from Orange County
James N. Hull
February 21, 1884 Warwick Advertiser
We learn that Mr. Hull died at his residence at Greenwood Lake, in the town of Warwick, very suddenly, on the afternoon of the 5th Inst. Mr. James N. Hull, age 57 years, 9 months and 10 days, was born April 23, 1826 in the town of Monroe at Little Long Pond. He lived there for several years, and afterward moved with his parents near Oxford church. When about twenty-five years of age, he married Miss Elizabeth Hunter of Monroe Village. She lived about seventeen years with him then died. He joined the Oxford M.E. Church when about seventeen years of age. About seventeen years ago he married for his second wife, Mrs. Mary Helland, of Greenwood Lake, N.Y. He leaves two sons and two daughters by his first marriage. He was buried in the Monroe Cemetery.
To within a few years immediately preceding his death, he had enjoyed most excellent health; always willing and ready to acquit himself with alacrity: and first and foremost in discharging every duty incumbent upon him incident to a busy life. Yet within the last decade, it was apparent that a lurking and insidious disease was gradually sapping his vital energies and almost imperceptibly but surely, undermining a once vigorous constitution and robust physic.
He was to the manor born, and resided almost continuously in the towns of Monroe, Warwick and Blooming Grove, wherein many resident farmers will recall the ambitious youth, with robust health, always ready with clever expedients to execute faithfully the various enterprises incident to husbandry. Mr. Hull was a good and vigilant farmer, and with the means and facilities at hand, did secure very favorable results.
His friends and acquaintances were many and widely situated, with whom he enjoyed himself much in social intercourse, and whose sudden departure many will deplore. Mr. Hull will be missed in his own neighborhood and its surroundings, and especially at the M.E. Church at or near the lake, where he regularly attended and was seldom absent.
The obituary was written by Elias T. Hill