Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: 9V1H-1CH
• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Mayflower - Richard Warren

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Sara Ann Delano was the wife of James Roosevelt and the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born and raised in the town of Newburgh, NY. Her family was very wealthy and she traveled often to China and surrounding countries as a child. She was a firm believer of a regimented lifestyle, and carried through the finances and actions of her very large estate in Hyde Park after her husband's death.

She played a big part in FDR's campaigns and entertaining many of his prominent guest at her home in Hyde Park NY. She was supporting her son's career and presidency even standing in for the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, several times at public occasions. She died 230 days after hers son's re electing to Presidency. In commemoration of her life, she was honored with the Sara Delano Roosevelt Park in New York City's Lower East Side, which was dedicated during her lifetime, in 1934.

Bio by: AMMNY

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9V1H-1CH

Group:
Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

Group:
Descendant of Richard Warren of the Mayflower

Sara married James Roosevelt on 7 Oct 1880 in Newburgh, Orange County, New York. James (son of Dr. Isaac Daniel Roosevelt and Mary Rebecca Aspinwall) was born on 16 Jul 1828 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York; died on 8 Dec 1900 in New York, New York County, New York; was buried after 8 Dec 1900 in Saint James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]