Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — HIS SOUTHERN ANCESTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIS SOUTHERN ANCESTRY.

Roosevelt's Southern Trip Includes a Visit to Georgia. President Roosevelt’s southern tour has included a visit to Roswell, Ga., where stands the ancestral homestead, on his mother's side. The latter, whose maiden name was Bulloch, came of an aristocratic southern family! Her father, James Stephen Bulloch, was a major of the Chatham artillery, deputy collector of the port of Savannah and a

wealthy planter. Here his daughter married Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., of New York, and there are many still in Georgia who cherish tender memories of the President's beautiful, aristocratic mother. Throughout her girlhood she was a noted belle, admired for her beauty, accomplishments and strong mentality. She was proud of her southern birth and antecedents, one of ner forefathers having been~Governor of Georgia. Her brother was sailing master of the Alabama when she fought the’ Kearsarge, another was the Confederate naval agent abroad and a third was a major in the army. It is also a fact that one of President Roosevelt’s maternal great-grandfathers was Kenneth Baillie, a descendant of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.

BIRTHPLACE OF ROOSEVELT’S MOTHER.