Mittie Bulloch, from Roswell, GA, would later become Mittie Roosevelt, mother of Theodore Roosevelt (which for the record, should be pronounced like “roo” in kangaroo). In David McCullough’s biography of TR, he describes Mittie as “small, scarcely over five feet tall, very slender…tiny, perfect hands…eyes of a soft, clear blue…a flawless face, the complexion of more moonlight-white than cream white and framed by a head of lustrous black hair.”

In the 1920’s a reporter from the Atlanta Journal, a woman going by Peggy Mitchell, (later known as Margaret Mitchell) grilled Mittie’s closest living friend, Evelyn King, for facts and stories about the then deceased Roosevelt matriarch. Among other things, Evelyn described Mittie and Theodore Sr.’s (an ardent abolitionist) wedding at Bulloch Hall in Roswell, recounting images of the bridal party clustered on the grand, main staircase.

A decade later Mitchell published the epic novel, Gone with the Wind.