U.S. Senator and Representative Nicholas Van Dyke III and granddaughter of Delaware Governor Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. Their wedding was attended by the Marquis de Lafayette. They had three children: Victor, Mary Van Dyke and Charles Jr. After Dorcas' death in 1838, he married Ann Ridgely (born 1815). Like his first wife, Ridgely was the daughter of a U.S. Senator and Representative from Delaware, Henry M. Ridgely. They had two children: Amélia Elizabeth (who married her cousin Eugene du Pont) and Henry Ridgely. Du Pont died January 31, 1869, at Louviers, his family estate, and is buried at the Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery at Winterthur, near Greenville. References External links University of Delaware Library Delaware Historical Society website 1797 births 1869 deaths Delaware state senators Charles I. du Pont Businesspeople from Charleston, South Carolina People from Greenville, Delaware American Civil War industrialists American people of French descent Charles I. du Pont Delaware Whigs 19th-century American politicians Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina Ridgely family