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American cities and individuals with
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The couple had two daughters, Landine
Legendre Wood Manigault, born 1933; and Bokara Legendre, born 1940. Landine's first husband was Peter Hodgson Wood of Cross River, New York. With him she had two children: Peter Sanford Harrison Wood, born 1954; and Wendeney LeGendre Wood, born 1955. Her second
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at Yale. Sidney died at Medway of a sudden heart attack on 8 March 1948. Gertrude joined another Ripley expedition to Nepal in 1949. She married Dr. Carnes "Piggy" Weeks on 22 March 1951, but the marriage was an unhappy one that ended in divorce after five years, and she reverted to her
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Until nearly the end of her life, Mrs. Legendre gave a traditional New Year's Eve costume party at Medway. At one of the last of those parties, she offered a toast: "I look ahead. I always have. I don't contemplate life. I live it, and I'm having the time of my life."
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Switzerland. As the train stopped just short of the border she dashed from the train while a German guard shouted orders for her to halt or be shot. She continued and secured her freedom.
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Sanford married the expedition's co-leader Sidney J. Legendre on 17 September 1929 in New York. Following their marriage, the couple purchased one of South Carolina's oldest surviving plantations,
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A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
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uniform and paperwork identifying her as a second lieutenant.
776:"'A Guest of the Reich' Review: The Honored Prisoner - WSJ"
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cities and individuals in Europe devastated by the war.
485:. Vol. 87, Iss. 6, (May 25, 1927): 1, 34. Via Proquest.
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