Background
Was the daughter of wealthy New York banker Louis von Hoffmann and his wife, Athenais Grymes, whose family had been prominent in Louisiana.
Was the daughter of wealthy New York banker Louis von Hoffmann and his wife, Athenais Grymes, whose family had been prominent in Louisiana.
Medora was the wife of Antoine Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Morèson The town of Medora, North Dakota, founded in 1883, was named by the Marquis in her honor. The Marquis"s meat packing plant failed and the town fell into a decline after the family left.
However, the story of the Marquis de Mores and Medora are now featured in The Medora Musical held every summer in Medora, a major tourist town in the North Dakota Badlands.
The Marquise de Morès lived in both Paris and Cannes, France after the assassination of the Marquis de Morès in 1896. During World War I, she turned her home into a hospital for wounded soldiers.
She died in 1921 of a leg injury she received while working as a nurse The wound never fully healed.
This gave her bouts of illness throughout her life which eventually resulted in her death.