Famous Widows | List of Celebrities Who Were Widowed Young

Theodore Roosevelt became a widower at age 26. His wife of four years, Alice Hathaway Lee, died after complications with childbirth in 1884, when she was 22. The same day, his mother, Mittie, died of typhoid fever in the same house. Roosevelt left his baby with Lee, Alice, in the care of his sister while he grieved. He resumed custody of his daughter when she was three years old.

Roosevelt married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886. The couple had five children.

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