 De Mille resolved to write a conclusion to "The Lost Paradise" called "The Promised Land", based on the teachings of George, but de Mille died of typhoid fever less than a year later and before it could be finished.In 1876 de Mille married Matilda Beatrice "Bebe" Samuel (1853–1923), a native of Liverpool who had come to America with her parents when she was about eighteen.Their son William C. deMille was born in 1878, Cecil B. DeMille in 1881 and daughter Agnes de Mille some ten years later.