Hi folks, It has been a few days since my 1000th post. And I know it is a tradition around here to have a contest.. I've come up with the question. Times are tough so it won't be a great prize but the winner will get a nice crisp two dollar bill mailed to them free. Rules: Only one answer per person. First coin talk member to answer correctly wins. No multiples. Guests and visitors not invited to participate. Here is the question: [please post answers directly to this thread] What famous person had the unfortunate experience of both his mother and his wife passing away on the same day and in the same house?
off by 4 min. Theodore Roosevelt On this day in 1884, future President Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother die, only hours apart. First marriage and response to catastropic loss Alice Hathaway Lee (July 29, 1861 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – February 14, 1884 in Manhattan, New York) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of their child, Alice. Roosevelt's wife, Alice died of an undiagnosed (since it was camouflaged by her pregnancy) case of kidney failure called, in those days, Bright's disease at 2 pm two days after Alice Lee was born. Theodore Roosevelt's mother had died of typhoid fever in the same house, on the same day, at 3 am, some eleven hours earlier. After the near simultaneous deaths of his mother and wife, Roosevelt left his daughter in the care of his sister, Anna "Bamie/Bye" in New York City. In his diary he wrote a large X on the page and wrote "the light has gone out of my life." (See diary photo). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...ory&displayDate=02/14&categoryId=presidential
Darn! Too late. I was gonna guess John List. His mother, his wife and his three teenage children all died the same day in the same house. Of course, he killed them all. He was on the lam for 18 years before he was captured thanks to the TV show America's Most Wanted and a bust created by a forensic scientist depicting how he thought List may look. (The resemblance was uncanny, right down to the eye glasses. List is shown in the photo beside the bust below.)
With Valentine's Day approaching soon can you imagine how Teddy felt that Valentine's Day in 1884? He must have been crushed. Of course we all know what he became in the future. He was a great force in the development of US Gold coinage.
You are very welcome. Hope you enjoy them. That $2 bill is one of a big hoard I got from my bank. One day the head teller said she had more than $500 worth of $2 bills in the vault. I said I'll take them and waited 35 minutes for them to process the transaction. Out of that number I was hoping to get some older notes. Nope. But I did get about 2 dozen crisp uncirculated like the one you got. I also put together a set of 12 different federal reserve districts but not in CU.
