The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-29
MRS. In VERT.
Incidents In the Life of That Accomplished
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WAsufYaTos, March 20, Madame &c,
tayia Walton Le, Vert, VINO alea
on the 13th inst, OF the house
or n relative near Augusta, Georgia.
She wng the daughter of Colonel George
Walton. of Prince Edwards county,
Virginia. aud the granddaughter OF
George Walton, one Of the signers Oh the
Declaration OF independence. Her
father was the second Governor OF
Florida, and IL was ut Pensacola she
began her career aa belle, q career
thnt closed only with her death, for
although the charms Of face and figure
were buried In that Btoutness with which
age isapt TO aitlict Its victims, the better,
finer charms Of mind and manner re-
mained. She spoke every modern
language, was an incorrigible Hirt
in her youth, and counted her offers by
tho hundreds. Spaniardg, Italians,
Frenchmen. Germans, Englishmen,
Drazilians and. worst ofall-AmeIlcans
by the score sighed In vain OF her shrine.
She would tell them In the harsh or mu-
Hical accents of their individual coun-
tries that she loved them, but not with
love like theirs, and this 80 prettily
that they would leave her presence de-
cIaring &c better to be refused by her
than accepted by another. Her foot
was one OF the greatest attractions; 1t
was 80 tiny, 30 delicate, that her little
straw slippers were eagerly sought for.
and happy he who could obtain one as
q gage d'dn.itte from pretty octavia On
one occasion u sloop.of-War was to shil
from Pensacola 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 prof
fered gift, 30 as u balm to hurt affection
they gave her the most superb ball they
could devise. or course she danced
from ten till four, and then, as they
were TO sail at daybreak, her health was
proposed us u last compliment. The
Captain was talking eagerly to her when
and as they reached him he thrusta tiny
satin slipper into his breast, which she
had just drawn from her pocket (belles
then altpavs carried an extra pair and
given him, and IL was from this bit OF u
shoe that he drank the toast, '"The
prettiest, wittiest, sweetest and dearest
girl In America" She married In 1896
Doctor Henri Lac Vert, u gifted physi-
clan Of Mobile, and son OF Rocham.
beau's fleet surgeon, spent her winters
here during Jackson's administration,
TO visit the Duke of Rutland.
Thence she travelled through Europe
and the Holy Land-a more difficult
trip then than now-returning to her
native country after three years alb
sence, only to pick up her scepter where
she had laid IL down. Among her
friends she counted such men as Wash
ington Irving and Lamartine, and 1t
was ut the urgent entreaty Of the latter
she published her Souvenirs OF
Travel" At the close OF the war
which she bitterly deplored, and did oil
found herself reduced from atfluence 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 sixty-eight
years old when she died, but retained TO
the very last the manner that made the
name OF Oetavia Le Vert known and nd
mired from Maine to Mexico.