 Nellie, who longed to return to America, was granted a divorce, given a large annual income, and allowed to take her children back to the United States, where she was given renewed citizenship by a special act of Congress.Sartoris died in 1893 at the age of forty-two, leaving Nellie Grant free to remarry.In 1912, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones (March 6, 1854 – October 2, 1931) a lawyer originally from Springfield who lived in Chicago.