Socialite. Born Sara Mae Cadwell to Senator & Mrs. Martin Cadwell. Her first husband was Selden B. Manwaring of Hartford, whom she divorced in April of 1914. In May of 1914, not ten months after the death of his wife, Plant announced his engagement to Mae who had obtained a divorce the previous month. A month later the couple was married at Plant's immense Groton, Connecticut estate. Mae was, reportedly, pleased with her wedding gift of $8 million. By 1916, with the country having entered World War I, Morton and Mae became concerned about the stores and hotels that were inching closer and closer. Despite the restrictions in his contract with Vanderbilt, Plant began construction on a Italian Renaissance palace at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street, designed by Guy Lowell. In the meantime Maisie Plant was window shopping. Pierre Cartier had opened a New York branch of his Paris jewelry store, and there she fell in love with a double-stranded Oriental pearl necklace with a $1 million price tag. Before the advent of cultured pearls, flawless pearls were more valuable than diamonds. In Edwardian society a woman's social status was often measured by the length of her pearl ropes. Plant called on the jeweler and, in agreement with Vanderbilt, sold his Italian palazzo to Cartier for $100 and the necklace. On his death in 1918, she inherited a multi million dollar fortune. She inherited another million dollars in 1945 upon the death of her son, Philip M. Plant, who had been adopted by Morton Plant. Philip Plant, a nationally known sportsman and gentleman farmer, was at one time the husband of actress Constance Bennett. Mae's third marriage in 1919 was to Col. William Hayward, a New York attorney. who died on 14 October 1944. In World War I. Colonel Hayward organized and commanded a Negro infantry regiment. As United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1921 to 1925 he won distinction as a prosecutor of prohibition cases. Mae married Mr. Rovensky on 22 July 1954. Mae died on July 21, 1956, her funeral was held at Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Mae was entombed in the Plant~Hayward~Rovensky Mausoleum in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, Connecticut.
Socialite. Born Sara Mae Cadwell to Senator & Mrs. Martin Cadwell. Her first husband was Selden B. Manwaring of Hartford, whom she divorced in April of 1914. In May of 1914, not ten months after the death of his wife, Plant announced his engagement to Mae who had obtained a divorce the previous month. A month later the couple was married at Plant's immense Groton, Connecticut estate. Mae was, reportedly, pleased with her wedding gift of $8 million. By 1916, with the country having entered World War I, Morton and Mae became concerned about the stores and hotels that were inching closer and closer. Despite the restrictions in his contract with Vanderbilt, Plant began construction on a Italian Renaissance palace at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street, designed by Guy Lowell. In the meantime Maisie Plant was window shopping. Pierre Cartier had opened a New York branch of his Paris jewelry store, and there she fell in love with a double-stranded Oriental pearl necklace with a $1 million price tag. Before the advent of cultured pearls, flawless pearls were more valuable than diamonds. In Edwardian society a woman's social status was often measured by the length of her pearl ropes. Plant called on the jeweler and, in agreement with Vanderbilt, sold his Italian palazzo to Cartier for $100 and the necklace. On his death in 1918, she inherited a multi million dollar fortune. She inherited another million dollars in 1945 upon the death of her son, Philip M. Plant, who had been adopted by Morton Plant. Philip Plant, a nationally known sportsman and gentleman farmer, was at one time the husband of actress Constance Bennett. Mae's third marriage in 1919 was to Col. William Hayward, a New York attorney. who died on 14 October 1944. In World War I. Colonel Hayward organized and commanded a Negro infantry regiment. As United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1921 to 1925 he won distinction as a prosecutor of prohibition cases. Mae married Mr. Rovensky on 22 July 1954. Mae died on July 21, 1956, her funeral was held at Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Mae was entombed in the Plant~Hayward~Rovensky Mausoleum in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, Connecticut.
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