[5] Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, in one of his published "verse memories," wrote fondly about Florence when she was a child.

She began singing at the age of thirteen or fourteen for her friends and for the benefit of various charities, her interpretation of old Scotch ballads being unusually happy.

He served as Associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, resigned on account of ill health, and died October 20, 1885.

Her poem, "The Marble Lily", originally appeared in the monthly literary magazine The Land We Love.

[8] A sketch of West's life was included in The Living Female Writers of the South [1872], by Ida Raymond.