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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (née Dall, born March 25, 1927, in New York City), librarian, educator, historian, editor is a granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
She one of the few surviving people who witnessed her grandmother's diplomacy. Each year, when Seagraves' grandmother held a picnic at Val-Kill for delinquent boys, she assisted Mrs. Roosevelt with these events. She was close to Eleanor Roosevelt throughout her life.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt_Seagraves
Her parents are Anna Roosevelt Dall and her first husband Curtis Bean Dall.[1] She is usually known as "Sistie", "Ellie" or "Eleanor".[2]
Sistie, as she was affectionately called in the press during her grandparents' tenure in the White House, was named for her mother and for her maternal grandmother, Eleanor Roosevelt. When her parents separated in 1933 (they divorced in 1934), she along with her mother and brother Curtis moved into the White House with her grandparents. Her mother would later remarry two more times and a younger half-brother, John Roosevelt Boettiger would join the family in 1939.
Marriage and children
On July 7, 1948, she married Van H. Seagraves.[1] Together, they had three children:
The couple has six grandchildren:
Children of Nicholas Delano Seagraves
Children of David Delano Seagraves
Children of Anna Fierst
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March 25, 1927
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New York, New York, United States
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