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20 REMINISCENCES OF FAMOUS GEORGIANS.
the Presbyterian Sunday-school at Roswell; and he was
stricken with apoplexy one Sunday morning while the ex
ercises 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 lat
ter's second marriage. In wedding the widow Elliott
Major Bulloch wedded his stepmother-in-law; and Sen
ator Elliott, who was already President Roosevelt's step-
great-grandfather, now became his step-grandfather-in-
law.
But another distinguished Revolutionary ancestor of
President Roosevelt in Georgia was General Daniel Stew-
art, for whom Stewart county was named. Martha Stew-
art Elliott, the President's grandmother, was the daugh
ter of General Stewart. He \vas 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 ef
fecting his escape. Notwithstanding his extreme youth,
he proved his mettle to such an extent that he was in
vested with the rank of colonel; and not long after the
war closed, being called to resist the Indian depradations