Daughter of Colonel John & Abigail (DeHart) Mayo
According to an article in the Petersburg Progress dated 22 April 1862, Maria had refused 100 propsals of marriage before accepting the General's desire. Her father was a former Mayor of Richmond and one of it's richest and most socially prominent men in Virginia.
Winfield and Maria had seven children, five daughters and two sons.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper in Atlanta, GA
Rome, Italy - Mrs. Winfield Scott died here Tuesday - paper date June 15 1862
I have frequently heard it said that Mrs. Scott as a young woman refused the early offers of marriage from the man who eventually became her husband because his rank in the army was too low to suit her taste, but that she finally relented when he became a General. I am able to contradict this statement as Mrs. Scott told me with her own lips that she never made his acquaintance until he was a General, in spite of the fact that they were both natives of the same State. This did not by any means, however, indicate a marriage late in life, as General Scott became a Brigadier General on the 9th of March, 1814, when he was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
In the Sentinel, published in Newark, New Jersey, on the 25th of March, 1817, the following marriage notice appears:
Married--at Belleville, Virginia, at the seat of Col. Mayo, General Winfield Scott of the U. S. Army to Miss Maria D. Mayo.
Mrs. Scott's record as a belle was truly remarkable, and in the latter years of her life when I knew her very intimately she still retained traces of great beauty. Her accomplishments, too, were extraordinary for that period. She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp, but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of manner and brilliant powers of repartee. -- As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur.
According to an article in the Petersburg Progress dated 22 April 1862, Maria had refused 100 propsals of marriage before accepting the General's desire. Her father was a former Mayor of Richmond and one of it's richest and most socially prominent men in Virginia.
Winfield and Maria had seven children, five daughters and two sons.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper in Atlanta, GA
Rome, Italy - Mrs. Winfield Scott died here Tuesday - paper date June 15 1862
I have frequently heard it said that Mrs. Scott as a young woman refused the early offers of marriage from the man who eventually became her husband because his rank in the army was too low to suit her taste, but that she finally relented when he became a General. I am able to contradict this statement as Mrs. Scott told me with her own lips that she never made his acquaintance until he was a General, in spite of the fact that they were both natives of the same State. This did not by any means, however, indicate a marriage late in life, as General Scott became a Brigadier General on the 9th of March, 1814, when he was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
In the Sentinel, published in Newark, New Jersey, on the 25th of March, 1817, the following marriage notice appears:
Married--at Belleville, Virginia, at the seat of Col. Mayo, General Winfield Scott of the U. S. Army to Miss Maria D. Mayo.
Mrs. Scott's record as a belle was truly remarkable, and in the latter years of her life when I knew her very intimately she still retained traces of great beauty. Her accomplishments, too, were extraordinary for that period. She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp, but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of manner and brilliant powers of repartee. -- As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur.
Daughter of Colonel John & Abigail (DeHart) Mayo
According to an article in the Petersburg Progress dated 22 April 1862, Maria had refused 100 propsals of marriage before accepting the General's desire. Her father was a former Mayor of Richmond and one of it's richest and most socially prominent men in Virginia.
Winfield and Maria had seven children, five daughters and two sons.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper in Atlanta, GA
Rome, Italy - Mrs. Winfield Scott died here Tuesday - paper date June 15 1862
I have frequently heard it said that Mrs. Scott as a young woman refused the early offers of marriage from the man who eventually became her husband because his rank in the army was too low to suit her taste, but that she finally relented when he became a General. I am able to contradict this statement as Mrs. Scott told me with her own lips that she never made his acquaintance until he was a General, in spite of the fact that they were both natives of the same State. This did not by any means, however, indicate a marriage late in life, as General Scott became a Brigadier General on the 9th of March, 1814, when he was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
In the Sentinel, published in Newark, New Jersey, on the 25th of March, 1817, the following marriage notice appears:
Married--at Belleville, Virginia, at the seat of Col. Mayo, General Winfield Scott of the U. S. Army to Miss Maria D. Mayo.
Mrs. Scott's record as a belle was truly remarkable, and in the latter years of her life when I knew her very intimately she still retained traces of great beauty. Her accomplishments, too, were extraordinary for that period. She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp, but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of manner and brilliant powers of repartee. -- As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur.
According to an article in the Petersburg Progress dated 22 April 1862, Maria had refused 100 propsals of marriage before accepting the General's desire. Her father was a former Mayor of Richmond and one of it's richest and most socially prominent men in Virginia.
Winfield and Maria had seven children, five daughters and two sons.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper in Atlanta, GA
Rome, Italy - Mrs. Winfield Scott died here Tuesday - paper date June 15 1862
I have frequently heard it said that Mrs. Scott as a young woman refused the early offers of marriage from the man who eventually became her husband because his rank in the army was too low to suit her taste, but that she finally relented when he became a General. I am able to contradict this statement as Mrs. Scott told me with her own lips that she never made his acquaintance until he was a General, in spite of the fact that they were both natives of the same State. This did not by any means, however, indicate a marriage late in life, as General Scott became a Brigadier General on the 9th of March, 1814, when he was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
In the Sentinel, published in Newark, New Jersey, on the 25th of March, 1817, the following marriage notice appears:
Married--at Belleville, Virginia, at the seat of Col. Mayo, General Winfield Scott of the U. S. Army to Miss Maria D. Mayo.
Mrs. Scott's record as a belle was truly remarkable, and in the latter years of her life when I knew her very intimately she still retained traces of great beauty. Her accomplishments, too, were extraordinary for that period. She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp, but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of manner and brilliant powers of repartee. -- As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur.
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