Henrietta Lamar

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She was the second wife of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second President of the Republic of Texas from 1838 to 1841. She met Lamar while a visitor in the home of a mutual friend, Mrs. Sophy Roberts Settle of Mobile and New Orleans. Mrs. Settle was the daughter of Lamar's friend and mentor, Dr. Willis Roberts. They married February 1851 in New Orleans. They had one child, Loretto Evalina Lamar, born at Macon, Georgia, in 1852.

According to contemporaneous news accounts Henrietta's mother, Ann Carnie Maffitt, divorced her husband over his itinerant lifestyle and moved the family to Galveston, Texas where she opened a boarding house and later a fashionable hotel. Henrietta was the twin of Caroline Matilda, who married Judge Robert D. Johnson of Galveston, Texas. Henrietta and her sisters were known for their beauty and intellect. Her youngest brother, Commander John Newland Maffitt, was named after their father and raised in North Carolina by an uncle after their parents separated.

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