 Earlier marriages were to John C. Seager, Jr., Treasurer of the Seager Steamship Company; Stuart Gage; playwright Philip Dunning, and James Dunne, who served as a private in France in World War I.On October 9, 1918, Edna gave birth to a son, David, who was given up for adoption.She died in 1942 at Mother Cabrini Hospital, 611 Edgecombe Avenue, New York City, at the age of 47.