Maria Dehart Scott

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

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.