Intosh, who commanded the Continental troops in Savannah, thought to compliment Mr. Bulloch upon the high office which he held as president of the Executive Council by ordering a sentinel to be posted at his door. But the republican instinct of the chief magistrate arose in rebellion and he requested the removal of the sentinel, stating that he was himself only the servant of the people, and that he wished to avoid on all occasions the appearance of ostentation.

To establish the proper genealogical relationship between the present Chief Executive of the United States and the first Chief Executive of Georgia it may be said that the President's mother was Martha Bulloch. She was the daughter of Major James Stephen Bulloch, the grandson of Archibald Bulloch. During the early part of the last century Major Bulloch moved from the tidewater levels to the upper foothills, locating at Roswell, Georgia, some twenty miles north of what is now Atlanta; but Atlanta, in those days, was not even so much as "a babe in the woods." The old Bulloch homestead in which the President's mother was born is still standing at Roswell-an old-time Southern mansion, modeled upon the classical pattern, with immense Doric pillars supporting the spacious veranda in front, and not unlike the famous ante-bellum home of General Lee at Arlington. The President himself enjoyed the pleasure of standing under the ancestral roof on his visit to Georgia in the fall of 1905.

And the little town of Roswell will swell with pride at the memory of that visit down to the latest generation.

From all the mountain-sides gathered the simple rustics, many of whom had never seen and never expected to see a President. And such a welcome as the little town that day gave the nation's Chief Executive. More than all the garrish pomp of the great pageants which he had witnessed so often, it must have touched the heart of Mr. Roosevelt to receive from his mother's people a welcome so cordial, welling up from the thousands of rugged hearts around him, pure and bold, like the crystal mountain springs of the great Blue Ridge. Nor least among the choice recollections which he carried back with him to Washington was the picture of the old black mammy who had held his fairer mother in her sable arms and crooned the tender lullabies which were destined to become his cradle-songs.

Two of the President's uncles were in the Confederate navy, James Dunwoody Bulloch, his half uncle, and Irvine S. Bulloch, his whole uncle, the former attaining the rank of captain in the service and the latter being an officer on the Alabama. Major Bulloch was twice married, his son, Captain James Dunwoody Bulloch, being the sole product of the first union, and three children springing from the second, namely, Anna, Mittie and Irvine.

Mittie, or Martha, became the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, Senior. She is supposed to have met her future husband while visiting in Savannah. The marriage took place in the old Bulloch homestead at Roswell, Georgia, on December 22, 1853, and Dr. N. A. Pratt, an old Presbyterian clergyman, officiated at the altar. Major Bulloch, the President's grandfather, was superintendent of

the Presbyterian Sunday-school at Roswell; and he was stricken with apoplexy one Sunday morning while the exercises were in progress.

Quite an odd tangle in the Bulloch family has mixed relationships and greatly annoyed the genealogists. It has already been observed that Major Bulloch was twice married. His first wife was Miss Esther Elliott, the daughter of United States Senator John Elliott by the latter's first marriage. His second wife was Mrs. Martha Stewart Elliott, the widow of Senator Elliott, by the latter's second marriage. In wedding the widow Elliott Major Bulloch wedded his stepmother-in-law; and Senator Elliott, who was already President Roosevelt's stepgreat-grandfather, now became his step-grandfather-in

law.

But another distinguished Revolutionary ancestor of President Roosevelt in Georgia was General Daniel Stewart, for whom Stewart county was named. Martha Stewart Elliott, the President's grandmother, was the daughter of General Stewart. He was born in what was then the Parish of St. John in 1762, and was less than fifteen years of age when the war for independence commenced. He served under Sumter and Marion in the swamps of South Carolina; and being made a prisoner at Pocataligo, he was put on board a ship and subjected to the most rigorous treatment, but he succeeded after a time in effecting his escape. Notwithstanding his extreme youth, he proved his mettle to such an extent that he was invested with the rank of colonel; and not long after the war closed, being called to resist the Indian depradations

on the Georgia frontier, he prefigured the exploits of his strenuous descendant upon the Western plains.

It seems that the Indians in detached bodies had been making frequent inroads upon the white settlements, carrying off rich property and sometimes murdering entire households; and upon the shoulders of this young officer devolved the task of organizing the campaign against the savages. But he performed the work so effectually that no further trouble was experienced. Subsequently he was put in charge of the cavalry forces of the State with the rank of brigadier-general.

At the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was prepared to defend the soil of his native. State at the head of the cavalry troops, but his services were not required. Almost if not quite as prominent in civil as in military affairs, he was chosen an elector in 1809 and voted for President Madison. He was also an official member of old Midway church in Liberty county; and on the visit of President Washington to Georgia in 1791 he was appointed by this historic communion to prepare an address to the illustrious visitor.

Through General Stewart, his ancestor, President Roosevelt is enrolled among the descendants of old Midway church, an historic religious organization in Liberty county, Georgia, from which more distinguished men have sprung than from any similar religious organization in America. The Puritan ancestors of the Midway flock originally came from Dorchester, England, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Later they drifted southward and settled in Dorchester, South Carolina. And

finally, dropping the old settlement name, they crossed over the Savannah river and started the religious colony which was destined to play such an important part in the history of the commonwealth.

Organized upon Congregational lines, it was served interchangeably by Congregational and Presbyterian preachers and among the early divines who ministered to the pastorial needs of the flock was Rev. Abiel Holmes, the father of the famous New England poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes. The elder Holmes retained his connection with the church for something over six years; and an interesting circumstance which marked the return of the Holmes family to the classic shades of Cambridge was the birth of the noted bard; and it was only by the barest freak of the calendar that Oliver Wendell Holmes missed being born on the soil of Georgia.

Besides preachers "ad infinitum," most of them Presbyterian, but some Baptist, some Methodist and some Episcopalian, old Midway church has sent forth scores of men who have become prominent in the various walks of life. Among the noted offspring of old Midway church may be included Drs. John and Joseph LeConte, the noted scientists, so long identified with the University of California; Chancellor P. H. Mell, of the University of Georgia; United States Senators John Elliott, Alfred Iverson and A. O. Bacon; Governors Gwinnett, Hall, Howley and Bronson; General Daniel Stewart, General John Screven, Colonel Lachlan McIntosh, Hon. John A. Cuthbert, Hon. W. B. Fleming, Adjutant-General John McIntosh Kell, United States Minister to China John E. Ward; Colonel Chas. Colcock Jones, Georgia's distinguished historian; Rev. Frank R. Goulding, author of