Annabel Walport was pregnant with Elizabeth. Dorothy Dowdy said she caught the flu and died, however, Elizabeth lived. Someone took her out west possibly California to raise. Mrs. Walport (Annabel's mother) once suggested that Frank Renehan (Blair's grandfather) had some English blood in him. Frank replied "Madam, if I had one drop of English blood in my veins, I'd open my wrists and let it out.