Roswell’s Distinguished Men

Some of Roswell’s leading early citizens are buried in this cemetery, most of them from Georgia’s coastal counties. They include Francis Robert Goulding (1810-1881), a clergyman, inventor, and author of The Young Marooners and other juvenile classics; Barrington King (1798-1866), son of Roswell King, first settler, president of Roswell Factories, and his wife, Catherine Margaret Nephew King (1804-1887); Nathaniel A. Pratt, D.D. (1796-1879), a graduate of Yale and Princeton Theological Seminary, founder of the Roswell Presbyterian Church, its pastor for 40 years, and his wife, Catherine A Barrington King Pratt (1810-1894); and Archibald Smith (1801-1886) and his wife, Annie Margaret Magill Smith (1807-1887). In the old cemetery at the top of the hill are Roswell King (1765-1844), founder of Roswell, for whom the town is named; John Dunwody, Esq. (1786-1858), and his wife, Jane Bulloch Dunwody (1788-1856); and James S. Bulloch (1793-1849), a major in the Mexican War and father of Martha "Miss Mittie" Bulloch, wife of Theodore Roosevelt. Her sons were President Theodore Roosevelt and Elliott Roosevelt, the father of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roswell, Georgia · United States