Roots Generation 5

SPECIAL NOTE: JANUARY 2010

Starting several years prior to her passing, Frannie Roots Hadden began a book about her father,
Bishop Logan Roots, and his wife, Eliza Lydia McCook. It was Frannie's desire to convey
the story of their missionary lives in China during tumultuous revolutionary times, their
love of the people, and for each other. After Frannie's death in May 2000, the effort to complete
the book was taken up by her friend and editor, Motoko Huthwaite, as well as two of Frannie's
grand-nieces, Ellen Roots McBride and April Roots Prewitt. Through their collective efforts
over the last ten years, Frannie's book has finally been completed and is now for sale
through Eastbridge Books.

Below is the link to where the book can be purchased (it will soon be available through Amazon
and Alibris), as well as their preview and picture of the dustjacket:

http://www.eastbridgebooks.org/LoveLetters.html

FROM CHINA WITH LOVE:
The Personal Letters of Bishop and Mrs. Logan Roots,
Two American Missionaries in China (1900-1934)
Motoko Huthwaite, ed.

"Logan Herbert Roots (1870-1945) was a very important figure in the history of the Christian missionary movement in modern China who, by his exemplary life in China, contributed to the later development of a vibrant and fully Chinese church after the missionary era ended."
--Daniel Bays, PhD - Calvin College

"[Bishop Roots] was no ordinary churchman. One could find in his drawing room leaders of the Communist Party, as well as those of the Kuomintang. Here was a man whose influence on the thought patterns of China's leaders was measureless."
--Captain Evans ("Gung-ho") Carlson USMC - in his book Twin Stars over China.

From China with Love is a family portrait drawn by the letters of a married couple madly in love for over thirty years. Because their home is in China, the letters also tell us something about China; but what stands out most are the tender expressions of endearment, of concern, and of love for each other, for their children, and for their friends, both Chinese and foreign, in China and in the United States. It is a delightful experience tracing the love and commitment of two intelligent and eloquent Americans from 1900 until Eliza's death in 1934.

This book will resonate with many young couples today—emailing love letters between America and Iraq or Afghanistan or some other far-flung danger spot—separated by distance and war, but united in loving concern, faith, and hope.

ISBN 1-59988-016-4 (pb) $29.95

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Roots Generation 5

.....a. Oliver Guernsey ROOTS (11 Apr. 1836 at Willington, CT - 3 Nov. 1856 at New Orleans, LA). He taught in New Orleans.

.....b. Philander Keep "P.K." ROOTS (4 June 1838 at Willington, CT f. - 16 Oct. 1921) m. Frances Maria BLAKESLEE (1843 - 1905) of Du Quoin, IL on 23 May 1866 in San Francisco, CA. He was a student at the Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. At age 14, he began practice as a civil engineer in a corps under the direction of his father. He contracted malaria and was ill until around age 17. At age 20, he became engineer of the New Orleans and Ohio railroad, the Kentucky portion of which was constructed and put in operation under his supervision. He was in the employment of the United States as civil engineer during the latter part of the war of the rebellion. He received his A. M. degree from the University of Kentucky in 1862. He resided in Oreana, Nevada, and in 1870 was living in Humboldt City, NV. After that he lived in Ft. Smith, Ark., from 1873 - 1880; from 1880 he lived in Little Rock, Ark., where he helped found Ft. Logan ROOTS. Documents in possession: 6 journals written by P.K., and P.K.’s death certificate. (Ancestral blood line)

.....c. Col. Logan Holt ROOTS I (26 Mar. 1841 in Perry Co., IL, f. - ?) m. Emily Margaret BLAKESLEE (1844 - 1923) on 9 Aug. 1871. Emily was the daughter of Lyman C. BLAKESLEE and Maria (Angell) BLAKESLEE. Logan, of Little Rock, AK, graduated at the Illinois State Normal University, with the first honors of the class of 1862, immediately after graduating he joined the Federal army, and serving therein to the close of the war, made a most creditable military record. He had the proud distinction of winning special notice from Gen. LOGAN, Gen. McPHERSON, Gen. SHERMAN and Gen. GRANT, with each of whom he enjoyed esteemed friendship till they respectively answered answered to the final muster out. He was with Gen. SHERMAN on the March to the Sea, and after participating as an officer on Gen. SHERMAN’s staff in the grand review at Washington in May, 1865, he came West with Gen. SHERMAN and was ordered on duty in Arkansas.

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Col. Logan Holt Roots during the Civil War between 1862-1865	Col. Logan Holt Roots (1841-1893; ca. 1890)	Roots reunion 1907	Mr. & Mrs. P.K. and L.H. Roots
P. K. Roots

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