The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-15

hence his name is not attached TO the
historic document adopted at Philadel-
phia July d. 1776. Such was the unset
tied condition of the times and so pre-
carious were the affairs of the colony
that the whole executive powers of
government were entrusted to Presi-
dent Bulloch by resolution of the Pro-
vincial Congress, with a council of five
persons of his own selection.
Death of GOV. BuIlOch.
In February, TIT, President or Gov.
Bulloch died suddenly at his home in
Savannah. His death was a great
blow to the struggling commonwealth
and may account in part for the mis-
fortunes which befell Georgia during
the remainder of the war.
The largest portrait of the several
in the possession of the Georgia His-
torieal Society is that of Gov. Bulloch
and his family. The portrait is the
property of DR.. Joseph G. Bulloch.
formerly of Savannah, but now in the
Indian service of the government and
is loaned to the Society. This por-
trait represents Gov. Bulloch as a man
of splendid physique and in the prime
of life. He was only AZ years of age
at his death. He is in the Continen-
tai uniform and is of commanding APP
pearanee.
On his left stands a sturdy looking
boy of about IL years, James Stephens
Buloch, the ancestor of President
Roosevelt Young Bulloch, who was
born in 1865, was in 1878 at IA years
of age commissioned a captain in the
Virginia State Garrison Troops. in the
regiment of Col. Georgia Muter and
was honorably retired in 1871. He
returned to Georgia and was clerk of
~ T..fo nj nVfn Of
Chatham county. Mrs. Bulloch is
represented with an infant in her arms,
Archibald Stobo Bulloch, who became
a prominent citizen. The little girl
on the left is Jane Bulloch.
After Gov. Bulloch's death another
son was born. William Bellinger Bull
loch, who became United States Dis
trict Attorney and United States Sem
ator.
Mrs Bulloch was Mary Devaux, the
daughter of Judge DeVaux. a promi-
nent jurist and rice planter.
RoOseveIt's Ancestors.
James Stephen Bulloch first married
Ann Erwin. daughter of DR..
John Erwin. His second wife
was Martha Elliott. widow
of United States Senator John Elliott
of Georgia and daughter Of Gen. Dan
iel Stewart of Revolutionary fame.
There were three children by each
marriage, Martha Bulloch, who mar
ried Theodore Roosevelt, the elder, in
New York in 1853, was a daughter by
the second marriage and gave birth to
the son who yesterday became Presi-
dent.
If President Roosevelt has splendid
Revolutionary ancestry he also had
some good Confederate relatives. His
mothers half brother. Capt. James b.
Bulloch, was the agent Of the Confed-
crate government in London and won
fame for himself by the able manner
in which he rendered aid to his govern
ment.
It was largely through his efforts
that the Alabama and other cruisers
which did such damage to Northern
commerce were fitted out.
A full brother of Mrs. Roosevelt. r.
vine S. Bulloch. was sailing master
aboard the Alabama, participated as
such in the disastrous encounter with
the Kearsarge and was later commits
stoned a lieutenant in the Confederate
navy. Doubtless President Roosevelt
had many other relatives in the Con-
federate service. as the Bulioch family
connection throughout the South was
very large.
RooseveIt's Dutch Ancestry.
On his fathers side, President Roose-
welt comes of sturdy Dutch stock.
Klass Martensen Roosevelt. who emf
grated to this country from Holland,
i'm 1919, being the first of his ances-
tors to identify himself with the Wig
orous life Of the new world. This
worthy progenitor was among the
early settlers of New York and he
brought with him TO his colonial home
in the West the rugged Independence Of
the typical pioneer. Next in line Of
descent on the paternal side came
Nicholas Roosevelt, who achieved some
note in provincial affairs being at one
time an alderman or what correspond
ed in colonial times to this important
functionary IN modern municipal pol
itics. Then came Jacobus. father and
son, neither Of whom achieved any spe-
cial distinction. Next in line came
James, who rose to rank OF captain
in the New York troops during the rev.