The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-29
FROM BLOOD ROYAL
COMES THE PRESENT PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE CHAMPION OF SCOTLAND
WAS ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

AhC DuAIDtnN Oh UGOEEIu,
and the BaiIiies of Dunain, in
Scotland, the President Derives
His Claim to Royal Descent-The
Baillies Claim and show Alliances
With the Royal Houses of Ballot
and Bruce Kenneth BsiIIie
Brought the Family Name to Geor-
gfa, and From Him Was Descended
the Mother of the President.
1t is an occurrence somewhat un-
usual that the chief magistrate of a
free country, where the equality of all
men is one of the cardinal principles
of the constitution, should be descend
ed Indirectly from blood royal, and d.
rectly from some of the most illustrious
known and noted for its noble and gal
liant men. In position such as this
is placed Theodore Roosevelt. Presi-
dent of the United States.
Through the Bullochs of Georgia his
family tree ascends to the Ballots of
Scotland, closely related to the kings,
John and Edward Baliol. The name
Ballot, to escape the wrath of Edward
I, of England, was changed to Baillie,
and from that illustrious branch of the
Baltic family, the Baillies of Dunain,
came him who brought the name to
the then colony of Georgia, from whom
Theodore Roosevelt is descended.
Sir william Baillie married Marion
Wallace, only daughter and heiress of
Sir william Wallace. The Champion
of Scotland" Their son, Sir William
Baillie. of Hoprig and Harrington.
married Isabel Seton, daughter of Sir
William Seton. Sir William Seton was
the grandson of Sir Christopher Sc
ton and his wife, Christian Bruce, Sis
ter Of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland
Alexander Baltic, eldest son of Sir
William Baltic Of Hoprig and Laming-
ton and Isabel Seton, was the found
err of the illustrious Scottish house OF
Battle of Dunain.. He married Cath
arine Grant.
From this marriage. through nine
generations of the Baillies of Dunain
was descended Kenneth Baillie, VINO
in 1902 married Isabel Chisholm. Their
son, Kenneth Baillie, came to the col
ony of Georgia with his distinguished
and illustrious kinsman. John More
Mcintosh, after whom one of the coun-
ties of the state has been named.
In 1873 Kenneth Baillie was ensign IN
the Darion company of Rangers. In
this capacity he accompanied Gen.
Oglethorpe in his expedition against
the Spaniards in Florida During one
of the slxirmishes that took place he
was captured and sent to Spain,
whence, in course of time, he escaped
to England. He returned to Georgia
and was successfully lieutenant, cap
tain, major and colonel of the Second
Southern Colonial Regiment. He was
trustee of the town OF Sunbury, tnen
in size and commercial importance the
rival of Savannah, but now and for
long years dead. He was man o.
prominence in the county, one of its
largest landowners and planters.
He married Elizabeth Mackay, and
of this union was born Ann Elizabeth.
who married DR.. John Irvine. Their
daughter, Anne Irvine, born Jan. IA,
ITO. married Capt. James Bulloch, of
the American army, on April IL, 1875.
Capt. Bulloch was the son of Archibald
Bulloch, the first Governor of Georgia.
Capt James Bulloch had son,
James Stephen Bulloch, whose second
wife was Martha Stuart. Their daugh-
II.
Roosevelt, father of the President.
Thus the President is. able to trace
his ancestry back to the royal houses
of Ballot and Bruce and to Sir Will
liam Wallace, the champion OF Scot
land. Possibly there has never sat in
the chair of the chief magistrate Of
the nation a man in whose veins ran
blood so illustrious, nor, indeed, one
who in his own nature more typlcaiiy
exemplified the family virtues of BRAY
cry. readiness and determination which
have characterized the strenuous lie
of the President.
II is not hard to understand his fond
ness for a life of activity and force
and actual meaning when one consid-
ers the stock from which he is rprung.
In the descendant of Wallace, unless
the characteristic traits OF that
doughty champion had vanished in the
course of ages or in the dilution of his
contribution to the strain, the traits
of Theodore Roosevelt seem natural,
| and to have been expected.
This is no apocryphal romance. the
parish records in Scotland and Mcln-
| tosh county amply substantiate the
| claims, and old and precious docu-
| ments In the present possession OF the
| Scottish representatives of the family
lend interesting details to the story.
| The President is too modest a man to
| call to the recollection or attention OF
the people the dignity of the stock
| from which he is sprung and too SEN
| sible to base his claim to considera-
| ton at the hands of his fellow coun-
trvnen on merits not his own. How
| ever II must be a source of satisfac-
| tion to him to know that in the olden
! times his forefathers won and held the
| honors worthily and well.