Editing Burl Ives (section)

== Personal life ==
On December 6, 1945, Ives, then 36, married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich.<ref name=wed>{{cite news |title=Burl Ives Weds Script Writer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 8, 1945 |page=24 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/08/103607330.html?pageNumber=24 |access-date=January 12, 2023}}</ref> Their son Alexander was born in 1949.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barnes |first=Bart |date=April 15, 1995 |title=Singer, Actor Burl Ives Dies |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/04/15/singer-actor-burl-ives-dies/617ec2f8-3515-4762-885d-d46b9981de1b/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113095026/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/04/15/singer-actor-burl-ives-dies/617ec2f8-3515-4762-885d-d46b9981de1b/ |archive-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref>

Ives and Helen Peck Ehrlich were [[divorce]]d in February 1971.<ref>{{cite news |title=Burl Ives Divorced |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/burl-ives-divorced.html |access-date=January 12, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=February 19, 1971 |page=27}}</ref> Ives married Dorothy Koster Paul in London two months later.<ref>UPI, "Burl Ives Weds", ''Evening Sentinel,'' Holland, Michigan, April 17, 1971, p. 3. Accessed via Access NewspaperARCHIVE</ref> In their later years, Ives and Paul lived in a waterfront home in [[Anacortes, Washington]], in the [[Puget Sound]] area, and in [[Galisteo, New Mexico]], near the [[Turquoise Trail]]. In the 1960s, he had another home just south of [[Hope Town]] on [[Elbow Cay]], a barrier island of the [[Abaco Islands|Abacos]] in the [[Bahamas]].<ref>{{cite journal| title=A Snowman in Abaco| url=https://littlehousebytheferry.com/category/burl-ives/| date=December 22, 2014| journal=Little House by the Ferry| first=Amanda| last=Diedrick| access-date=March 26, 2020| archive-date=March 26, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326221124/https://littlehousebytheferry.com/category/burl-ives/| url-status=dead}}</ref>