Mathilde (Eustis) Johnston (1831-1913)
Mrs Marie "Mathilde" (Eustis) Johnston
In Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood by Eliza Ripley, it was recalled: "The first black silk dress worn on the street, and that was in ’49, was proudly displayed by Miss Mathilde Eustis, who had relatives in France who kept her en rapport with the latest Parisian style. Hers was a soft Marceline silk; even the name, much less the article, is as extinct as the barège and crêpe lisse of those far away days."
