Editing Ernest Thompson Seton (section)

== Personal life ==

[[British people|British]] by birth, Seton was not naturalized as [[Canadians|Canadian]] (as status did not legally exist until 1947; he thus remained a British subject) and became an [[Americans|American]] in 1931. He was married twice. His first marriage was to [[Grace Gallatin Seton|Grace Gallatin]] in 1896. Their only daughter, Ann (1904–1990), later known as [[Anya Seton]], became a best-selling author of historical and biographical novels. According to Ann's introduction to the novel ''[[Green Darkness]]'', Grace was a practicing [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophist]].

Ernest and Grace divorced in 1935, and Ernest soon married Julia Moss Buttree. Julia wrote works by herself and with Ernest. They did not have any biological children, but in the 1930s they sought to adopt Moss Buttree's niece, Leila Moss, who lived with them for years in New Mexico.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moss Knox |first1=Leila |title=The Storyteller: My Years with Ernest Thompson Seton |date=2015 |publisher=Langdon Street Press |isbn=9781935204534 }}</ref> In 1938, they adopted an infant daughter, Beulah (Dee) Seton (later Dee Seton Barber). Dee Seton Barber, a talented embroiderer of articles for synagogues such as Torah mantles, died in 2006.<ref>[https://www.blevinscares.com/obituaries/Dee-Barber-113596/#!/Obituary Dee Barber Obituary]</ref>

Seton called his father, Joseph Logan Thompson, "the most selfish man I ever knew, or heard of, in history or in fiction." He cut off ties completely after being made to pay off an itemized list of all expenses he had cost his father, up to and including the doctor's fee for his delivery, a total of $537.50.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/07/08/squaring-accounts/ |title=Squaring Accounts |date=July 8, 2014}}</ref>

Seton's parents lived out their lives in Toronto, as did brother John Enoch Thompson (abt. 1846–1932).

Two brothers, Joseph Logan Thompson (1849–1922) and Charles Seton Thompson (1851–1925), moved to British Columbia. Besides Seton, George Seton Thompson (1854–1944) moved to Illinois and died there.