First Marriage
His first wife, whom he married in New York City, New York, on 22 February 1923 (divorced 1928) was Dorothea Parsons Dechert (died 1967). She was the former wife of James Flanagan Dechert (died 1968), whom she married in May 1916 and divorced in April 1920. Born Dorothea Webb Parsons, she was a daughter of Arthur Webb Parsons, a lawyer, and his wife, the former Frances Margaret Graves. The bride was a great-granddaughter of Theophilus Parsons, a Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and a president of Harvard University.
Dorothea and Ernest Simpson had one child, Audrey C. C. Simpson (born 1924), who married, firstly, American journalist Murray J. Rossant (married 5 October 1945), and, secondly (on 1 April 1949), New York advertising executive Edmund Hope Driggs 3d. Audrey Simpson Driggs, as she is now known, is an artist and currently lives in Canada. Simpson also had a stepdaughter by this marriage, Cynthia Josephine Dechert (born 1916), who wed Robert Harold Baker (married 1937, annulled 1938) and James Imbrie Jr. (married 1950).
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