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Antoinette Polk
Antoinette Polk, Baroness de Charette (October 27, 1847 - February 3, 1919) was an American Southern belle in the Antebellum South and (by marriage) French aristocrat in the Gilded Age. Born into the planter elite, the great-niece of the 11th President of the United States James K. Polk, and an heiress to plantations in Tennessee, she was a "Southern heroine" who saved Confederate States Army personal during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. After the war, she moved to Europe, where she took to foxhunting in the Roman Campagna of Italy and the English countryside, and later became a Baroness and socialite in Paris and Britanny.
==Early life and family background==
Antoinette Wayne Van Leer Polk was born on October 27, 1847 in Nashville, Tennessee.〔(Baroness de Charette ), New York Historical Society〕 Her father, Colonel Andrew Jackson Polk, was a planter who served in the Confederate States Army.〔〔(''Tennessee: A Guide to the State'' ), US History Publishers: Federal Writers' Project, 1949, p. 389〕 Her mother, Rebecca Van Leer, was an heiress to an iron fortune from Cumberland Furnace.〔George W. Jackson, ''Cumberland Furnace, a Frontier Industrial Village: A Story of the First Ironworks on the Western Highland Rim'', Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Donning Company, 1994〕 Polk grew up at Ashwood Hall, a mansion in Ashwood near Columbia in Maury County, Tennessee with her parents and brother, Vanleer Polk.〔
Her paternal great-uncle, James K. Polk served as the 11th President of the United States from 1845 to 1849.〔 〕 Bishop Leonidas Polk, who served as a General in the Confederate States Army, was her uncle.〔 〕 She was also a descendant of William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and General Anthony Wayne, a Commander-in-Chief in the American Revolutionary War.〔 〕
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