If you don't have a front-loading washing machine, go to the laundromat. Down comforters become heavy and bulky with water and can damage the balance of top-loading washing machines. Comforters can also become tangled and rip in washing machines that are too small.
Martha Washington died with a high fever of 105.3 and heart failure. She died at age 70, on May 22, 1802. She was depressed after George died and more of less wasted away.
(On the same day and in the same house, Rooseveltâs mother, Martha âMittieâ Bulloch Roosevelt also died, of typhoid fever.) T.R. was so distraught by Aliceâs death that except for a diary entry (âThe light has gone out of my lifeâ) he hardly ever spoke of her again.