 He was a paternal uncle of Wallis Warfield Simpson, (later the Duchess of Windsor), for whom King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, (later the Duke of Windsor) abdicated his throne in 1937.Warfield never married.A few months after Warfield's death, the SS "President Warfield" was built in 1928 by Pusey and Jones Corporation, in Wilmington, Delaware, for the century-old Baltimore Steam Packet Company, also known as the "Old Bay Line," operating steamships on Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia, their Chesapeake Bay.