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==Personal life== [[File:Anya Seton Grave.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The grave of Anya Seton in [[Putnam Cemetery]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]]]] Seton married twice. Her first marriage was to Hamilton "Ham" Cottier, a Rhodes scholar, whom she married when she was 19 years old.<ref name="AustinChronicle" /> In 1925, Seton gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Pamela. Their second child, Seton, was born in 1928 and died of an overdose in 1979.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name="NYObit" /> Seton and Cottier divorced in 1930 following several extramarital affairs on Seton's part.<ref name=":1" /> Two weeks later, Seton married investment counselor Hamilton "Chan" M. Chase, whom she had had an affair with. Seton and Chase spent the early years of their marriage at her childhood home in Greenwich, Connecticut, Little Peequo, with Seton's mother.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=14 July 2024 |title=Concern for Seton studio |url=https://www.greenwichtime.com/printpromotion/article/Concern-for-Seton-studio-5655617.php |access-date=24 July 2024 |website=Greenwich Time}}</ref> They later built a home called Sea Rune in [[Old Greenwich, Connecticut]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1930, Seton gave birth to the couple's only daughter, Clemency.<ref name="AustinChronicle" /><ref name="HSTGpapers">{{cite web| url=http://www.hstgams.org/hstgWeb/hstgAMS/hstg.asp?ead=MS2&page=ead| title=Anya Seton Papers| author=William E. Finch, Jr.| website=hstgams.org| publisher=The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich| access-date=27 November 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128133136/http://www.hstgams.org/hstgWeb/hstgAMS/hstg.asp?ead=MS2&page=ead| archive-date=28 November 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref> They divorced in 1968, though Seton continued to live at Sea Rune until her death.<ref name="HSTGpapers" /><ref name=":1" /> Seton died of heart failure at the age of 86 on November 8, 1990, at Sea Rune in Old Greenwich, Connecticut,<ref name="ChicagoObit" /><ref name="NYObit" /><ref name=":0" /> and was survived by Pamela and Clemency, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.<ref name="WPostObit" /> She is interred at [[Putnam Cemetery]] in Greenwich.<ref name="Library"/>
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