families. During her children's education, the family traveled to Europe, predominantly spending time in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany from May 1869 to May 1870, then on a second trip, an extended boat trip down the Nile, a trip through the Holy Land, and on to Vienna, Germany and France from October 1872 to November 1873. On this second tour, Theodore Sr. returned to America to go back to work and oversee the building of the new family home at Number 6 West 57th Street. The three youngest children stayed in Dresden while Mittie and Bamie went to Paris and then the spa at Carlsbad so Mittie could restore her health. Death Mittie Roosevelt died of typhoid fever in the early morning of February 14, 1884, aged forty-eight. On the afternoon of the same day and in the same house, her son Theodore's first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, unexpectedly died of Bright's disease. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mittie's granddaughter, had been born two days earlier. Mittie is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery located in Brooklyn, New York. Mittie described in her son's autobiography In his autobiography published in 1913, her elder son T.R. described his mother with these words, "My mother, Martha Bulloch, was a sweet, gracious, beautiful Southern woman, a delightful companion and beloved by everybody. She was entirely 'unreconstructed' [i.e., sympathetic to the Southern Confederate cause] to the day of her death." Gallery Sources Primary sources Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. (1913) Huddleston, Connie M. and Gwendolyn I. Koehler. "Mittie & Thee: An 1853 Roosevelt Romance." (nonfiction) (2015) Huddleston, Connie M. and Gwendolyn I. Koehler. "Between the Wedding & the War: The Bulloch/Roosevelt Letters 1854–1860) (2016) Secondary sources Beale, Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (1956). Brands, H.W. Theodore Roosevelt (2001) Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. (2002) Harbaugh, William Henry. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. (1963) McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (2001) Morris, Edmund The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) Morris, Edmund Theodore Rex. (2001) Mowry, George. The era of Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of modern America, 1900–1912. (1954) References External links Bulloch Hall: Official Website Women in History of Scots Descent Additional Bio of Mittie 1835 births 1884 deaths American socialites Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Bulloch family Deaths