 At some point during her ownership, she built a house for her chauffeur and added the west wing of the house.She also continued actively farming and gardening it.A 1923 article in "Today's Housewife" takes note of her memorial grove and describes her "every summer wearing for the most part of the day a wide brimmed hat and summer dress, out among her flowers and vegetables, happy to be back upon the land and to take an interest in crops and stock."