Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch, 1835-1884

The Bullochs had four children from previous marriages and had four children together: Anna, Mittie, Charles & Irvine. Major Bulloch died of a heart attack in 1849 while teaching a Bible class at the Presbyterian Church. His untimely death left Mrs. Bulloch to raise their family alone and maintain Bulloch Hall.

Mittie, their second daughter, began a romance with Theodore Roosevelt (Thee) while visiting her sister in Philadelphia. Theodore, the New York native fell in love and proposed to Mittie who was the epitome of a Southern belle. They planned their wedding through letters sent between Roswell and New York. On December 22nd, 1853, Mittie and Thee were married in the Dining room of Bulloch Hall. They had four children. One of their children, Theodore Roosevelt - called Teedie in his youth - became the 26th President of the United States. Mittie is also the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady from 1933-1945.

Martha Stewart "Mittie" Roosevelt[1] (née Bulloch; July 8, 1835 – February 14, 1884) was an American socialite. She was the mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a great-granddaughter of Archibald Bulloch, grandniece of William Bellinger Bulloch, and granddaughter of General Daniel Stewart. A true Southern belle raised in Georgia, Roosevelt is thought to have been one of the inspirations for Scarlett O'Hara.[2]

Mittie was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 8, 1835, to Georgia residents Major James Stephens Bulloch (1793–1849) and Martha "Patsy" Stewart (1799–1864). Mittie married Theodore Roosevelt Sr. on December 22, 1853, at the Greek Revival-style family mansion Bulloch Hall in Roswell; they were wedded in front of the pocket doors in the formal dining room.

After their honeymoon, the couple moved into their new home at 28 East 20th Street, New York, a wedding present from C.V.S. Roosevelt. Each of C.V.S.'s elder sons lived near his own house at 14th Street and Broadway in Union Square. Shortly afterward, her mother, Patsy, and sister, Anna Bulloch, moved north to join Thee and Mittie in New York.

Mittie bore four children:

Anna "Bamie/Bye" Roosevelt (1855–1931)
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919)
Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860–1894)
Corinne Roosevelt (1861–1933) Mittie Roosevelt died of typhoid fever in the early morning of February 14, 1884, aged 48. On the afternoon of the same day and in the same house, Theodore's first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, unexpectedly died of Bright's disease. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mittie's granddaughter, had been born two days earlier.[10] Mittie is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery located in Brooklyn, New York.[11]