Editing Winfield Scott (section)

==Family==
[[File:Mrs. Winfield Scott, by Asher Brown Durand, MET DP254451.jpg|thumb|Maria DeHart Mayo (1789–1862), portrait by [[Asher Brown Durand|Asher Durand]]]]
In March 1817, Scott married Maria DeHart Mayo (1789–1862).<ref name="FklAL" /> She was the daughter of Abigail ([[née]] DeHart) Mayo and Colonel John Mayo, a wealthy engineer and businessman who came from a distinguished family in Virginia.{{sfn|Eisenhower|1999|page=109}} Scott and his family lived in [[Elizabethtown, New Jersey]] for most of the next thirty years.{{sfn|Eisenhower|1999|p=110}} Beginning in the late 1830s, Maria spent much of her time in Europe because of a bronchial condition, and she died in [[Rome]] in 1862.{{sfn|Eisenhower|1999|p=402}} They were the parents of seven children, five daughters and two sons:{{sfn|Scott|2015|p=344}}{{sfn|Peskin|2003|p=70}}

* Maria Mayo Scott (1818–1833), who died as a teenager.<ref name="Norfleet">{{cite book |last=Norfleet |first=Fillmore |date=1942 |title=Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzEkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22edward+winfield+(1823-1827)%22 |location=Richmond, VA |publisher=Dietz Press |page=190 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* John Mayo Scott (1819–1820), died young<ref name="Norfleet"/>
* Virginia Scott (1821–1845), became Sister Mary Emanuel of the [[Georgetown Visitation Monastery|Georgetown convent of Visitation nuns]]<ref name="Murray1882" /><ref name="Lathrop1894" />
* Edward Winfield Scott (1823–1827), died young<ref name="Norfleet"/>
* Cornelia Winfield Scott (1825–1885), married Colonel [[Henry Lee Scott]] (1814–1886) (no relation), Winfield Scott's [[aide-de-camp]] and [[Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army|Inspector General of the Army]]<ref name="Moseley2009" />
* Adeline Camilla Scott (1831–1882), married New York City businessman Goold Hoyt (1818–1883){{sfn|Johnson|1998|page=241}}
* Marcella Scott (1834–1909), married [[Charles Carroll MacTavish]] (1818–1868), grandson of [[Richard Caton (merchant)|Richard Caton]] and a member of Maryland's prominent [[List of United States political families (C)#The Carrolls|Carroll family]]<ref name="Wake2012" />