 In 1928 she made the news when she was swindled out of a diamond ring value $1,000 ($ in dollars).She married Edgar J. Bissell in 1914, and had one son, William Edgar John Bissell (1916–1945), who committed suicide.She lived at 3016 Bartold Avenue, St. Louis, and died on November 9, 1944, in Maplewood, Missouri.