(1) She is married to Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.
They got married on May 19, 1880 at San Francisco, California, USA, she was 40 years old.
Spouse: Samuel C. Osbourne
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(2) She is married to Samuel Osborne.
They got married on December 4, 1857, she was 17 years old.
Child(ren):
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Frances Matilda 'Fanny' van De Grift<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Mar 10 1840 - Indianapolis, Hamilton, Indiana, USA<br>Marriage: Robert Louis Stevenson1880-05-19San Francisco, California, USA<br>Death: Feb 14 1914 - Santa Barbara, California, USA<br>Child: Samuel Lloyd Stevenson<br>Notes: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=87738672&pid=1954<br>Source: View the original record on GenealogieOnline website<br>Source Remarks: Some family trees were posted years ago and have later been removed. In such cases, the link to the original record will not work.
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Frances Matilda Van De Grift<br>Married names: Frances Matilda “Fanny” OsbourneFrances Matilda “Fanny” Stevenson<br>Nick name: Fanny<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Mar 10 1840 - Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States<br>Marriage: Dec 4 1857 - Indianapolis,Marion,Indiana<br>Marriage: May 10 1880 - San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States<br>Divorce: Jan 1880<br>Residence: Montecito, California<br>Residence: 1850 - Center, Marion, Indiana, United States<br>Residence: 1860 - Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States<br>Residence: 1900 - Precinct 16 San Francisco city Ward 41, San Francisco, California, United States<br>Residence: 1910 - Township 1, Santa Barbara, California, United States<br>Death: Feb 18 1914 - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States<br>Death: Feb 20 1914 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Burial: 1914 - Stevenson Family Estate Grounds, Vailima, Tuamasaga, Samoa<br>Parents: Jacob Leendertsen Van De Grift, Esther Van De Grift (born Keen)<br>Spouses: Samuel C Osbourne, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson<br>Children: Isobel Stewart "Belle" Osbourne, Hervey Stewart Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne<br>Siblings: Henry Vandegrift, Josephine K Vandegrift, Elizabeth Ellen Vandegrift, Jacob Vandegrift, Cora Orr (born Vandegrift), Nellie Foster Sanchez (born Van de Grift)<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Fannie was daughter of Esther Thomas Keen and Jacob Leendertsen Van De Grift. On Christmas Eve 1857, she married the Kentuckian Sam Osbourne in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN. At that time, her husband was Secretary to the Governor of IN., Gov. Willard (he was from New Albany, IN.; died in office Oct 1860). Then her husband was deputy clerk of the state Supreme Court of IN. Fannie had their 1st child, Isobel, in 1858. Fannie was left with a small child while her husband went off to the Civil War. In 1863, Sam decided to accompany a friend to CA., and in May 1864, Fanny set out to join him, taking six-year old ‘Belle39; with her. They shipped out of NY. and crossed the isthmus of Panama together, arrived in San Francisco, and caught up with Sam in Virginia City, NV. Fanny spent the next few years discovering that she could rise to the challenge of the new, nearly lawless life of mining. They left NV. to settle in Oakland, CA., and Sam took a job in San Francisco as court reporter. Fanny, now the mother of three children, began to paint. She developed an ambition to study abroad and convinced her husband to let her take the children to France, where she and her daughter Belle studied at the Julian Academy in Paris. In the summer, the town of Grez on the Loing River near the forest of Fountainbleu served as a retreat. It was here that Fanny met the young Robert Louis Stevenson, eleven years her junior. Fanny lived in France for three years. Her youngest son, Hervey, died there. In her poverty, Fanny could not afford better care for Hervey who developed a progressive, wasting illness and had to be buried in a common grave. In the second year, she renewed her painting lessons; by the third year she was Stevenson's lover and had cared for him during an illness of his own, even going with him to England for medical consultation and meeting his writing friends there. Fanny was bound emotionally to one man, but legally to another - a conflict that could not last forever. She returned in 1878 to try to reconcile their differences. In 1879 Stevenson booked passage on the ship that was to bring him to CA. He was not yet the famous creator of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. He was a young man with a law degree, the son of an engineer, who had published one or two travel pieces. Physically frail and nearly broke, he arrived in Monterey only to collapse at Fanny's feet. She was nursing him back to health when her attorney advised her to return to her husband's house if she was to retain custody of their son Lloyd. Fannie and Sam were divorced in Jan 1880, and Fannie then married Louis on May 19, 1880 in San Francisco. The couple left for their honeymoon in Napa County near the Silverado Mine. The honeymoon trip provided material for his book, The Silverado Squatters. "Treasure Island" was written to amuse his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Louis and step-son, Lloyd wrote a lot of pieces (and novels) in collaboration with each other, such as "The Wrong Box" (1889). Stevenson and his wife sailed from San Francisco to the islands of the South Pacific in 1888; he was able to overcome his illness while in the tropics.: Marquesas Islands, Honolulu, and Samoa. The latter is where the family took up residence and also where Louis died in 1894. Fannie returned to CA. after his death. She died in Santa Barbara, CA. 1914 and was cremated. Her ashes were returned to Samoa and buried beside her husband. Researched and written by Laura J. Stewart (#47412616).
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