Background
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she was the daughter of Eugene du Pont, Junior. She was raised at Owl"s Nest, the family"s estate in Greenville, Delaware.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she was the daughter of Eugene du Pont, Junior. She was raised at Owl"s Nest, the family"s estate in Greenville, Delaware.
They had two sons, Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (b 1938) and Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b 1941). In 1950 Ethel du Pont Roosevelt remarried to prominent Detroit lawyer, Benjamin South. Warren, Senior
Ethel du Pont was forty-nine years old when she committed suicide on May 25, 1965. Her family endowed the Harvard Medical School Ethel Dupont-Warren Fellowship Award for research in Psychiatry.