Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — WEDS ROOSEVELT’S COUSIN [ARTICLE]

WEDS ROOSEVELT’S COUSIN

Grant’s Granddaughter Married to a Relative of the President. The marriage of the twice previously engaged Vivian Sartoris, only daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, to Frederick Roosevelt Seovel, a cousin of President Roosevelt, took place at Cobourg,’ Ont., the other day. She is a granddaughter of President Grant and he is the son of Chevalier and Mme. Edward Seovel. Miss Sartoris is 23, and has been out, socially, four seasons. She was engaged first to Archibald Balfour, cousin of England's premier. They were to have been married July 11. 1901 but on June 22 the engagement was broken. Next she was reported engaged to Timothy Nichols, a wealthy New York .club man, but this also came to naught. She is tall, graceful, with regular features, dark hair and eyes, and has had numberless admirers. The marriage of her mother, Nellie Grant, was the crowning event of one of the most brilliant social seasons the national capital has ever seen.