Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (born Anna Eleanor Dall March 25, 1927) is the daughter of Anna E. Roosevelt and her first husband Curtis Bean Dall and the eldest grandchild of Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt. She is usually known as Sisty, Ellie or Eleanor.

Mrs. Seagraves was named for her mother and grandmother. During her grandparents' tenure in the White House, the press affectionately dubbed her Sistie. When her mother Anna was divorced from her father, Curtis Dall, in 1934, she along with her mother and brother Curtis moved into the White House with her grandparents.

In 1948 she married Van H. Seagraves and raised three children: Nicholas Delano Seagraves, David Delano Seagraves and Anna Eleanor Seagraves. Her grandchildren are Delano, Haven, Lucy and Dana Seagraves and Sophie and Simon Fierst.

Seagraves is one of the few living Roosevelt family members who witnessed historic events first hand during the White House years and continues to be a reliable source on information regarding the Roosevelt family. She is very insightful regarding the life and times of the Hyde Park and Oyster Bay branches of the Roosevelt family. Seagraves also is one of the few surviving people who witnessed her grandmother's diplomacy. She was remarkably close to Mrs. Roosevelt during Roosevelt's long, extraordinary life. Mrs. Seagraves has enjoyed a career as an educator and librarian. She edited Delano's Voyages of Commerce and Discovery (1994), drawn from the journals of Amasa Delano, as well as The Val-Kill Cookbook (1984). Eleanor Seagraves concentrated her career on keeping alive many of the causes her grandmother began and supported. She is an active participant in Democratic Party events in her area, and has endorsed Democratic hopeful Barack Obama for the 2008 Presidential campaign. At 81, Mrs. Seagraves resides in Washington D.C.

See also

*Anna Roosevelt Halsted mother
*Eleanor Roosevelt grandmother
*Franklin Roosevelt grandfather
*Theodore Roosevelt great-great-uncle