During his [Theodore Roosevelt’s] years in the legislature – from 1882 to 1884 – he also pursued the physical challenge of life in the great outdoors with a buffalo-hunting trip to the North Dakota Bad Lands, and suffered an incredible double-tragedy with the deaths, in the same house and on the same day – February 14, 1884 – of his mother and his wife.
Alice died of a previously undiagnosed kidney ailment, Bright’s disease, just two days after giving birth to a baby girl, who was soon christened with her mother’s name. “the light has gone out of my life,” wrote Roosevelt in his diary on February 14. He rarely spoke or wrote of his wife Alice again.
Source:
Hunt, John Gabriel. “Introduction.” The Essential Theodore Roosevelt. Gramercy Books, 1994. viii-ix. Print.
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