In her capacity as regent, she formed chapters in Charlotte, Henderson, Waynesville, and Salisbury.

[1] She was a descendent of John Nisbet, a colonial merchant who fought in the American Revolutionary War and served in the North Carolina Senate and the Fayetteville Convention, and of Colonel Adlai Osborne, who commanded the 2nd Rowan County Regiment during the revolution.

In 1877, she married the industrialist Edward Dilworth Latta, who would later become one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina.

[2][3] The couple lived in New York City until 1881, when they relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina.

[2] In 1898, Latta was appointed by national officers in Washington, D.C. to serve as the founding State Regent for the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.