In 1931, he married Frances Leonard, of Baltimore.[22][23][24][25]
In 1934, Nash moved his family to his in-laws' mansion in Guilford, Baltimore, Maryland, where he remained until his death in 1971.[26] Nash thought of Baltimore as home. After his return from a brief move to New York, he wrote, "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."[27]
Nash's daughter Isabel was married to noted photographer Frederick Eberstadt. His granddaughter, Frances R. Smith,[28] is an author. Another granddaughter, Fernanda Eberstadt, is an acclaimed author, and his grandson is political economist Nicholas Eberstadt. Nash had one other daughter, author Linell Nash Smith.[29][30]
Nash died at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital on May 19, 1971, of Crohn's Disease,[31][32] aggravated by a lactobacillus infection transmitted by improperly prepared coleslaw.[33][3] He is buried in East Side Cemetery in North Hampton, New Hampshire.[34]
At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry."[3]
