Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
The SOU|HS TRIBUTE
Georgia Erects Bullock Hall
at the Jamestown Fair, in
Honor of President
RoosEyELr's MOTHERS HOME

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Mr.. Roosevelt to Speak From Steps Of
the Replica juno 10--His Family
Connections With Dixie Land and tbs
corfsderaey Are Recalled.
Bullock Hail." the famous landmark
which links the name of President
Roosevelt with the south. Is to be re
produced at the Jamestown exposition,
A st. Louis man, John Ct'lllgan, Is now
at Norfolk experimenting the construc
ton Of the building.
President Roosevelt has frequently
expressed himself as being proud Of
his southern blood and of the part his
ancestors and immediate relatives have
had in southern history. The reproduc-
ton Of Bullock Hall. his mothers home,
at the Jamestown exposition near Nor
folk is material evidence that the south,
and especially the state OF Georgia,
which has the closest claim on him.
does not fail to reciprocate this feel.
Ing more or less strongly in spite of
President Roosevelt's pronounced Re.
publicanism and certain positions he
has taken on the negro question, says
the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
On Georgia day, June 10 next, Presi-
dent Roosevelt will speak from the
stone steps Of Bullock HAL az It will
then stand at Jamestown. The stone
forming this step was put in place In
the old home by President Roosevelts
neutrality-suspicious., Governor Bull.
lock Of Georgia, and from 1t Governor
Bullock delivered his speech OF accept
ance when he was made. president OF
the Georgia colony" as the position
was then called. The original stone
has been removed and taken to James,
town. The remainder 81 the building
{ Is to be replica Of the Georgia home.
President Roosevelt's appeal to the
sentiment Of the south is not merely
the passive fact that his mother and
her people lived there, however. The
name OF Bullock stands for as much
In the south as does the name Of
Roosevelt in New York. It Is indelibly
linked with the lost cause and ASSOC.
ciated with one who was In many
ways the most daring and picturesque
Of those WHO espoused the Confeder-
acy-C Captain Raphael semmes, com.
marider OF the famous Alabama.
"One Of my uncles was a4 admiral
in the Confederate navy" President
Roosevelt has said, "and another fred
the last gun fred aboard the Ala
bama."
Bullock Hall, which Is now being
erected as the Georgia state building
at jamestown, was the home of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's mother, Miss Martha
Bullock, and Of the two uncles who
served the Confederacy SO strikingly
and yalorously. 1t was there that
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the presidents
father, went as an attendant Of Dr..
Hilborne West Of Philadelphia when
that gentleman married Miss Susan El,.
lott, half-sister Of Miss Bullock.
Z Theodore Roosevelt, ST., met Miss
Bullock on that occasion, The Bull
locks were among the proud old south.
ern aristocracy, and for a week preced-
ing and after the wedding ceremonies
which made Miss Elliott the wife Of
DR.. West a gay and brilliant gathering
assembled at Bullock Hail. !,
A It was several years afterward, how
ever, before Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.,
made another visit to Bullock Hall that
was as important as his first. During
that time his courtship Of Martha Bull
lock had continued, and nnally they
were married, and thus the Dutch aris-f
tocracy Of the New York Roosevelts
and the Scotch southern aristocracy Of
the Bullocks were Joined. Theodore
Roosevelt was a son Of this union.
Bullock Halli stands now, as 1t did
then, at Roswell, Cobb county, Ga. It
was, built, as before stated, by Govern
or Bullock, and Is Of the old southern
colonial style.
3 Immense pillars rise In front to the
second story, forming q porch on which
many people noted in the history Of the
south have been received. The house
itself is large was very large at the
time 1t was built comprising probably.
twelve or fourteen rooms.
: In surroundings the old house at
Roswell represents very well what it
did when President Roosevelt's father
went there after his bride. One Of the
bridesmaids still lives adjacent, at
harrington Hall.
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