Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-06
"reminiscences OF Famous Woman.

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"reminiscences OF Famous Woman.
Society here is in mourning for Nine.
Octavia Walton lie Vert, who died on
the 18th inst, at the house of a relative
near Augusta, Ga She was the daugh-
ter OF Col. George Walton of Prince Ed
wards County, Virginia, and grand
daughter of George Walton, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independ-
cnce. Her father was the second Gov
ernor of Florida, and it was at Pensaco-
In that she began her career rs Il belle, n
career that closed only with her death,
for although the charms Of face and fig
ure were buried in that stoutness with
which age is apt to affiict its victims, the
better, finer charm of mind and manner
remained. She spoke every modern Ian
guage, was an incorrigable flirt in her
youth, and counted her offers by hun
dreds Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen,
Germans, Englishmen. BraZilians and
worst of all-Americans by the score
sighed in vain at her shrine. She would
tell them in the harsh or musical ac-
cent of their individual countries that
she loved them, but not with Il love like
theirs, and this so prettily that they
would leave her presence declaring it
better to be refused by her than accept
ed by another Her foot was one of the
greatest attractions; il was SO tiny, SO
delicate, that her little straw slippers
were eagerly sought for, and happy he
who could obtain one rs gage d'anlitte
from pretty Octavia. On one occasion
a sloop-of-war was to sail from Pensa-
cola homeward bound. Every single
officer from Captain to Middle had laid
his heart before her, and every one had
been obliged TO take back his proifered
rift, so rs a balm To hurt affection they
gave her the most superb ball they
could devise. OF course she danced from
10 till 4, and then, rs they Were to sail
at daybreak, her health was
proposed rs last compliment. The
Captain was talking eagerly to her when
his Juniors came to propose the toast,
and as they reached him he thrust tiny
satin slipper into his breast, which she
had just drawn from her pocket (belles
then always carried an extra pair) and
given him, and it was from this bit of a
shoe that he drank the toast, 1.-The pref
test, wittiest, sweetest and dearest girl
in America She married, in 1886,
DIR. Henri lie Vert, a gifted physician of
Mobile, and a son of Rochambeau' fleet
surgeon, spent her winters here during
Jackson's administration, and went TO
England in 1858 to visit the Duke of Rut-
land. Thence she Travelled through Ell-
rope and the Holy Land-a much more
difficult trip then than now-returning
TO her native country after three years
absence, only to pick up her scepter
where she had laid it down. Among
her friends she counted such men As
Washington Irving and Lamartine, and
it was at the urgent entreaty of the lat
ter she published her " Souvenirs of
Travel" At the close of the war
which she bitterly deplored, and did all
that woman could do to avert-she
found herself reduced from affluence to
poverty, and it was then she began the
readings that have supported her and
educated her younger children up to the
present time. She was 6S years old
when she died, but retained to the very
last the manner that made the name of
Octavia lie Vert known and admired
from Maine to MeXico.-JTashingto
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