Faculty 1918-1919,
English, French, Pedagogy

Birth: Feb. 7, 1885, Randolph County, North Carolina,
Death: Jun. 19, 1964, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado

Parents:
Daniel Webster Bulla (1852-1935)
Letitia Emily Allred Bulla (1854-1920)

Siblings:
Dora Bulla Redding (1879 – 1953)
Lena Elma Bulla Cole (1880 – 1967)
Dovey Bird Bulla Brookshire (1882 – 1962)
Baud Baxter Bulla (1883-1962)
Lillie Elliotte Bulla (1889 – 1977)
William Oscar Bulla (1891 – 1972)
Daniel Robert Bulla (1895 – 1975)

Spouse: Robert Clark Welborn (1866-1952)
Married: 07 May 1930

Burial: Marlboro Friends Meeting Cemetery, Sophia, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 183827686.

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The Concord Times (Concord, NC) 15 Aug 1918, p.2.

MONT AMOENA SEMINARY.
Every Prospect of Opening With a Full Enrollment

The Seminary has every prospect of opening September 11th with a full enrollment. The number of old students returning is as usual gratifying and the inquiries of new students are in liberal number. The management is happy to announce two new members of the faculty. Miss Natalie Rugheimer, graduate of Meminger Normal School of Charleston, S. C., 1910, graduate of Elizabeth College Conservatory of Music 1912, with six years successful teaching experience, will be director of the music department. Miss Rugheimer has studied singing under Emma Strout, product and teacher of the Old Italian School of Singing, and for two years was accompanist of the Musical Art Club of 100 voices, a well known club of Charleston. She comes to Mont Amoena with a most favorable recommendation.

In the work of English, French, and Pedagogy, the services of Miss Jennie Bulla, A. B. Guilford College, have been secured. Miss Bulla has been engaged in teaching for several years and will take up this work in the Seminary with the highest endorsements. The other members of the faculty will return. Mont Amoena is ready to serve her patrons in the all-important work of education and to serve solidly and satisfactorily.

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The High Point Enterprise (High Point, NC), June 21, 1964, p. 6C

Mrs. Clark Welborn

RANDLEMAN – Mrs. Jennie Bulla Welborn, 79, of Gunnison, Colo., and a former resident of Randolph County, died in a Trinidad, Colo., nursing home Friday. She had been in declining health for three years and was seriously ill six weeks.

She was the wife of the late Clark Welborn and a daughter of Daniel Webster and Letitia Allred Bulla. She taught school in both North Carolina and Colorado for many years.

Survivors include two brothers, Oscar Bulla of Graham and Robert Bulla of Sophia; and two sisters, Mrs. Lena Cole and Miss Lillie Bulla, both of Charlotte.

Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Marlboro Friends Meeting, with Rev. Bobby Medford, church, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The body will arrive at Pugh Funeral Home Tuesday morning and will be placed in the church 30 minutes prior to the service.

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The Courier-Tribune (Asheboro, NC), 29 Jun 1964.

Jennie Bulla Welborn Returns To Native Soil

June 29, 1964 – After an absence of twenty-two years, the body of Jennie Bulla Welborn was returned to its native soil in Marlboro Friends cemetery last week.

A native of nearby Plainfield community, she had spent the latter years of her life in Colorado for reasons of her health.

Her visits back home were infrequent, not because she did not want to come back, but an asthmatic condition was relieved when she remained in the higher regions of the western part of the country where she spent the last years of her life.

She came back the last time before her death four years ago. Two years ago members of her family visited her in the western state in which she lived.

That was the last time she saw any of her relatives until her sister Lillie flew to her bedside a month before her death when she was hurt in a fall and complications impeded her recovery.

Lillie remained with her during the final days of illness and accompanied her body back to her native state and the community in which she spent her childhood and young womanhood.

It was a long, lonely journey back home but other members of the Bulla family met the train at the High Point railway station in the early hours of the morning – to greet the sister who had remained at the sick bedside with consistency, devotion and attention and to receive the body of the one who had been away so long.

Jennie Bulla Welborn was a teacher and a person of considerable intellect. She was a person easily adaptable to people in all walks of life and was at ease and comfrortable in any surrounding.

Although a product of a rural environment, she had educated herself not only in the academic world but also through the use of her own keen intellect. She had a forceful personality and was a brilliant conversationalist.

She served as historian for her family reunion before going to Colorado to live and she retained and remembered the origin and background history not only of her own family but also of the other families whith whom she had been associated.

She never lost sight of the places and the people whom she had known in the earlier years, even though she formed many new and interesting acquaintances in the years she was gone.

Because of her perceptive knowledge of the people and the surroundings of Plainfield, Marlboro and the other communities of our county, it was fitting and proper that she be brought back for final interment in the soil in which she was born and reared.

Memories from the years of the past pervaded the minds of the people from Plainfield and Marlboro when Jennie Bulla Welborn came home last week. But it was a consoling factor to know that she came at the end.