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    Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of...
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    eldest daughter of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Throughout the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, she remained...
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    Washington Custis Lee (September 16, 1832 – February 18, 1913), also known as Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. His...
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    Anne Carter Lee (June 18, 1839 – October 20, 1862) was the fourth child and second daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She grew...
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    Childe Lee (February 10, 1846 – March 27, 1905) was an American society hostess and the youngest child of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She was...
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    Virginia. She was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, who was the wife of Robert E. Lee. In the early 1820s, Molly Custis helped form a coalition of women...
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    Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was...
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    Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She was a younger sister of George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, and Anne...
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    the Custis daughters before 1853. Upon George Washington Parke Custis's death in 1857, he left Arlington Estate to Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee for her...
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    Edward Lee Jr. (October 27, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was the sixth of seven children of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. He...
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    family) or W. H. F. Lee, was the second son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis. He was a planter, a Confederate cavalry General in the American...
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  • American ballerina Mary Anna Custis Lee (1807–1873), American general's wife Mary Custis Lee (1835—1918), American heiress Mary Greenhow Lee (1819–1907), American...
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    Ravensworth (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    Fitzhugh, William Henry Fitzhugh, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and George Washington Custis Lee. It was built in 1796. Ravensworth...
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    including Varina Davis, the wife of Jefferson Davis, and Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee. She was awarded 27 patents in her lifetime. After...
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    (1781–1857), married Mary Lee Fitzhugh. Speculation has also linked Custis as the possible father of William Costin (1780-1842), born to Custis slave Ann (Nancy)...
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    art work—because Mary Anna Custis Lee was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Mary Lee's father, George Washington Parke Custis, who built the...
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  • the property, a mansion Custis named "Arlington House." G.W.P. Custis' daughter, Mary Anna, married Robert E. Lee in 1831. Custis died in 1857, leaving...
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    courted Mary Custis whom he had known as a child. Lee obtained permission to write to her before leaving for Georgia, though Mary Custis warned Lee to be...
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    Parke Custis was born on December 31, 1777 in the Blue Room at Mount Vernon. She was the second-eldest surviving daughter of John Parke Custis, son of...
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    White House (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    land holding that John Custis, father of Daniel Parke Custis, purchased from the family of John Lightfoot III. After John Custis died, he left the White...
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    Custis's mother, Frances, was the daughter of Daniel Parke, a political enemy of the Custises. As Daniel Custis was the sole male heir in the Custis family...
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    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (née Elizabeth Parke Custis; August 21, 1776 – December 31, 1831), sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest granddaughter...
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    Washington Parke Custis, grandson of First Lady Martha Washington, acquired the land in 1802. The estate was later passed down to Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of...
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    son Cary. During the American Civil War, Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, stayed at Bremo as a guest of the Cocke...
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    John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, who married...
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    the family estates to Custis, which included two plantations and numerous slaves. His wife died two years later, and in 1717, Custis moved to Williamsburg...
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    Abingdon (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    (also known as the Alexander-Custis Plantation) was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation owned by the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families...
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    Daniel Parke Custis, the son of a wealthy planter in Virginia. They wished to marry, but the father of Dandridge's prospective groom, John Custis, was highly...
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  • County. He is sometimes designated John Custis III or "of Wilsonia" to distinguish him from his son (John Custis IV or "of Williamsburg", as well as his...
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  • George Washington; father to Mary Anna Custis Lee Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, wife to George Washington Parke Custis; daughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann...
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