News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-10-09
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PRESIDENT ROOSEvfLT'S MOTHER.
interesting Ancestry of Martha BulIOch Of
Georgia.

Interesting Ancestry of Martha BulIOch of
Georgia.
Bv reason of the intimacy which in
former years existed between my own
family and the ancestors of President
Roosevelt on his mothers side, who
for generations were residents of Sa-
vannah, am somewhat familiar with
the history ofthe latter, and thoughts
of much interest in connection with
them have come into my mind.
Archibald BuIloch, great-grand-
father of Martha Bulloch, President
Roosevelt's mother, had been the
President of the Provincial Congress
of Georgia in ITS and 1776. He
had been a delegate to the Con-
tlnental Congress which convened at
Philadelphia on September 13, IT'S.
He had been President of Georgia in
1776, and was the 6:st man to read
and promulgate the Declaration of
Independence in Georgia.
Could James Stephen Bulloch, his
grandson, have imagined that he was
then standing at an .qual distance in
his line between a grandfather who
had been President-of province,
and a grandson who might some day
become President--of the United
States?
In 1895 John Elliott, who was
born at the Midway settlement in
Liberty County in this state on Oct.
10, 1773, and who in later life repre-
sented his state in the Senate, married
in his native town Miss Esther Dun
woody.
From this union came a daughter,
Hester Amarintha. Her mother died,
and on December 81, 1917, in The
Old Meeting House at Medwav, she
was Joined in matrimony to james
Stephens BulIoch. By this union their
was but one child, James d. Bulloch,
who achieved much, fame in the ser7-
ice of the Confederate States.
Within one week after this marriage,
on January 6, 1918. the brides ia
Their, Senator John Elliott, married
at the same place where his daughter
had preceded him to the alter but
few days previous his second wife,
Miss Martha Stewart, a daughter Of
Gen. Daniel Stewart of Revolutionary
fame.
There we're three children of this
marriage: Miss Susan Elliott, who
married Dr. Hilborne West of PhiIa-
delphia; Miss Georgia Elliott, who
died unmarried, and Daniel Stewart
Elliott who married Mlss Lucy Sorrel.
In the course of time Senator John
Elliott died, leaving his widow, Mrs.
Martha Stewart Elliott. His daugh-
ter, Hester Amarintha Bulloch also
died, leaving her widower, James
Stephens Bulloch. By the union OF
these two survivors on Oct. 9, 1882,
President Roosevelt's grandfather
married his deceased wife's step
mother.
From this marriage sprung Miss
Martha Bulloch, who married Thee
dore Roosevelt, ST., in 1853; Miss
Annie Bulloch, who married James
K. Oracle, and Irvine Bulloch, who
married Miss Sears. And this Miss
Martha Bulloch, or "Mintie" Bull
Loeb as she is still spoken of by the
friends of her younger days, was the
mother of the present President.
1t was somewhere in the 40s that
Miss Martha Bulloch's half-sister,
Miss Susan Elliott, married DR.. Hill
borne West at Philadelphia at Ros-
we'll, in Cobb County, Ca, where the
Bulloch- Elliott family were thenresid-
ing. DR.. West brought along with
him as one of his attendants Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Sr. Then it that was
he met Miss Martha Bulloch, who sub
sequentIy married him after court
ship of several years, from which
union has come to these United States
their present President, Theodore
Roosevelt LLYoD OWENS in the
New York Sun.