After his wife died, E.W. Marland, 54, the world's most successful independent oilman during the Roaring Twenties, married their adoptive daughter, Lydie, 26. He built a 55-room mansion in Ponca City and commissioned statues of himself, his adopted son George, and Lydie. The infamy of violating the taboo had little effect on him: he was elected to Congress six years later, then became governor of Oklahoma in 1935. However, Lydie had lifelong emotional problems. She is rumored to have had a daughter before her adoption was annulled; she entered both the hospital and an asylum, and suffered from depression and mania. Lydie famously had the statue of her destroyed, "Face first," she told the man with the sledgehammer. Then the former first lady disappeared for 22 years. She was found in Washington D.C., where she might have lived as a street person during the 1960s and 1970s. She returned to Ponca City and lived as a hermit.