The Family of Emerson McMillin

Biography - Countess Russell (1866-1941), English authoress, was known better by the
name "Elizabeth," after publishing her most famous novel Elizabeth and her German
Garden. She was the daughter of Henry Herron Beauchamp (1825-1907) and Elizabeth
(Louey) Weiss Lassetter (1836-1919) and a cousin of Katherine Mansfield. She married
Count Henning August von Arnim (d. 1910) and spent 20 years on his East Prussian
estate (Nassenheide). Elizabeth returned to England and married John Francis Stanley
Russell, 2nd Earl Russell in 1916. They were separated in 1919. Her friends included
many writers and also the select groups which visited her estate. She traveled extensively
in Europe and the United States before her death in 1941. [For further information see
Leslie de Charms' Elizabeth of the German Garden, 1958; this biography was written
by her daughter, Elizabeth (von Arnim) Butterworth]
The children of Mary Annette Beauchamp “Elizabeth” and Henning August von Arnim
were: 1. Sophie Eva Luise Anna von Arnim (Graves), born December 8, 1891, in
Germany; 2. Elizabeth Irene von Arnim (Butterworth), born February 15, 1893, in
Germany, and died May 20, 1976, in California; 3. Beatrix Edith von Arnim (von
Hirschberg), born April 3, 1894, in Germany; 4. Felicitas Joyce von Arnim, born July 29,
1899, in London, and died June 3, 1916, of pneumonia; 5. Henning Bernad von Arnim
(Rebecca Le Breton), born October 27, 1902. in London.
*(From the official death
records of Los Angeles, California, and German records on the Internet.)
Caro von Arnim, daughter of Rebecca Le Breton and Henning Bernd von Arnim and
niece of Corwin and Elizabeth Butterworth, is found in the 1930 Census of Erie
County, New York, She married Theodore B. Taylor in 1948, and they divorced in
1992. She had a sister, Mary von Arnim, and a brother, Henning Bernd von Arnim who
married Patricia Knox. The father, Henning Bernd von Arnim married 2. Benlah Ellis. It
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