Once the wife of actor Guy Bates Post, Peyton retired after 14 years on stage, when she married the writer Samuel Hopkins Adams.

After the war, he purchased a small meat packing company in Spring Green that eventually expanded to include branches in Milwaukee and Chicago and employ over 200 workers.

[12][13] She played Lady Fitz-Herbert in Tom Moore, a fictionalized romantic drama about a young Thomas More (Andrew Mack) by Theodore Burt Sayre.

[12][14] Peyton was the adventuress Kate Van Dyke in Ramsay Morris' The Ninety and Nine, a melodrama loosely based on the hymn by Ira D. Sankey.

(The Critic, 1904)[20]In the early summer of 1905, Peyton assumed the rôle of Mrs. Kate Brandon in Paul Armstrong's comedy, The Heir to the Hoorah, at the Hudson Theatre.

[12][26] Peyton married Milwaukee physician Dr. Robert Curtis Brown at her father's residence on October 26, 1892, and settled down to life that revolved around social activities of the city's elite.

Upon hearing of his daughter's departure, George Van Norman threatened to disinherit her, and ultimately, in July 1902, Peyton's husband was granted an uncontested divorce on the grounds of desertion.

On February 16, 1915, Peyton and Post were granted an annulment on the grounds that at time of their wedding she was still married to Weld, claiming they were unaware that her final divorce decree would not take effect until October.