Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — LONGS TO SEE ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE]

LONGS TO SEE ROOSEVELT.

Preacher Who Married President?* Parente Awaits Visit to Georgia. Columbia, S. C., telegram: President Roosevelt’S proposed visit to the house of his mother's girlhood at Roswell, Ga., is eagerly looked forward to by a distinguished South Carolina preacher, Rev. B. Dunwody, who forty-eight years ago united the President's parents in marriage. Mr. Dunwody is perhaps the oldest Presbyterian minister in South Carolina, both as to years and time of service, and is besides the President’s cousin. Although the President’s parents were married in Georgia the record of the event is to be found in South Carolina. Here it is, as copied from the register in the Presbyterian church at McPhersonville, the handwriting being that of Mr. Dunwody: “Married—At Roswell, Ga.. Dec. 18, 1853, Theodore Roosevelt of New York city to Miss Martha Bulloch of Roswell.” Two of President Roosevelt’s uncles were prominent in the Confeder-’ ate navy. Irvine Bulloch was on the Alabama when she was sunk by the Kearsarge, while James Dunwody Bulloch was the naval representative of the Confederate states in Europe.