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Barbara Rutherfurd (LOC)

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  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Barbara Cainrcross Rutherfurd (1895-1939), debutante of the 1915-16 season. Apparently her bedroom was copied from a Renaissance painting of St. Ursula (there's also a 1921 photo of her at this link): aestheteslament.blogspot.com/2011_09_28_archive.html Her mother was Anne Harriman Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt. Her stepfather was William K. Vanderbilt Sr. (whose ex-wife Alva is also in this week's uploads). Barbara married twice--to Cyril Hatch in 1916 (divorced 1921), and to Winfield J. Nicholls in 1924 (divorced 1927, and in Reno 1930). She (and her mother and sister) were involved in a cult called "the Mystic Order of Tantricks," run by someone called "Oom the Omnipotent." Her children, twins, were born five months into her second marriage; she was apparently not involved in their upbringing (or even in choosing their names). Her second husband claimed she was a lunatic and sought to have their marriage annulled. Barbara died at age 44, at Cannes, France. news.google.com/newspapers?id=60ZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CQ4EA... Her brother Winthrop Rutherfurd married (as his second wife) Lucy Page Mercer--the mistress of FDR. Winthrop and Lucy's only child was named Barbara. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Page_Mercer_Rutherfurd
  • Wystan said:
    The grave of Winthrop Rutherfurd and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd -- with notes about her scandalous relationship with FDR:
  • Arden said:
    Thank you pennylrichardsca and Wystan for the details about the life of Barbara Rutherfurd. We will add more information to the description when we update.
  • Elizabeth Brower said:
    Winthrop Rutherfurd was Barbara Rutherfurd's cousin. Barbara was my Grandmother.
  • Elizabeth Brower said:
    My mistake, Winthrop was her father Lewis Morris Rutherfurd's younger brother...So, he was my Grandmother's Uncle.....his children where her cousins. My Grandmother was searching her whole life , as is evidenced in her youthful diaries, It is special to possess them and see her search lead her to study yoga. She was a very sensitive human being.

Dorothy Haight (LOC)

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Hope Williams (LOC)

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