Eliza was described as "quite a Frenchwoman in her manners and language" by her close friend, Alexander Bryan Johnson. She was enmeshed in French society, and when in New York would entertain French visitors such as General Moreau. Her first marriage was to the Marquis de Villehaut, but they divorced by 1812. Her second marriage was in 1823 to a French officer and Bonapartist, Col. Michel Combe (sometimes written as "Combes"). In 1815 Combe fled to America after a warrant was put out for his arrest based on suspicions he had been spreading Napoleonic propaganda and held "boundless fanaticism for the usurper." The couple settled in Utica on what was now her land after the passing of her father, who had bequeathed a "considerable" portion of his property to her. When Louis Philippe I ascended the throne, they returned to France. Combe died at the Siege of Constantine. A statue was erected in his honor in his hometown of Feurs in 1839.