Paulina Longworth: Appalachian Aristocracy

1925 - 1957 (31 years)

Generation: 1

Paulina Longworth was born 14 Feb 1925, Washington, DC; died 27 Jan 1957, Washington, DC; was buried , Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC.

Notes:

She was was the only child of Alice Roosevelt, and the granddaughter of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Her legal father was Alice Roosevelt's husband, Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth; her biological father, however, was Senator William Borah.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Longworth

Buried:
Grave location:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10597582

Paulina married Alexander McCormick Sturm 1944. Alexander was born 24 Jun 1923, Westport, CT; died 13 Nov 1951, Norwalk, CT; was buried , Willowbrook Cemetery Westport Fairfield Co. CT. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Joanna Mercedes Alessandra Sturm was born 09 Jul 1946.

Generation: 2

Joanna Mercedes Alessandra Sturm

(1.Paulina¹) was born 09 Jul 1946.

Notes:

She is is a great-granddaughter of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Left an orphan at a very young age, custody of Joanna was granted to her grandmother, Alice Longworth who doted on her granddaughter and the two were very close.

In the past thirty years, six books have been written about Alice Roosevelt with Sturm being a significant cited resource.
She has provided historical information and insights into the world of the Roosevelts of Hyde Park and Oyster Bay to virtually every Roosevelt biographer of the last thirty years, and she is credited by almost every professional TR biographer since 1970.

For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Sturm