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Sara Roosevelt
Female
Born
Sep 21, 1854
Hometown
Newburgh (town), ...
Died
Sep 7, 1941
Death Place
Hyde Park, New York
Other Names
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt was the 2nd wife of James Roosevelt, Sr. (from 1880), and the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child.
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Sara Roosevelt
d.1941
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CHILDHOOD
1854
Birth
Born on September 21, 1854.
1862
7 Years Old
In 1862, Sallie (which is what Sara was often called during her childhood), her mother Catherine, and six brothers and sisters traveled to China on the clipper ship Surprise.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1928
73 Years Old
Her brother Fred discovered Catherine's journal of the voyage many years later, in 1928.
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1934
79 Years Old
The funeral was held at her home in Springwood, which is located in Hyde Park, New York. Her memory is commemorated with the Sara Delano Roosevelt Park in New York City's Lower East Side, which was dedicated during her lifetime, in 1934.
1941
87 Years Old
Sara Delano Roosevelt, with the President at her side, died suddenly on September 7, 1941, 230 days after her son's third inauguration as President, exactly three months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and two weeks before her 87th birthday. "Minutes after her death, the largest oak tree at Hyde Park toppled to the ground.
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