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Mary Custis Lee (July 12, 1835 – November 22, 1918) was an American heiress and the 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 distant from her family. Spending much of her time traveling, she did not attend the funerals for ...
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 Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington , the wife of George Washington .
In April 1874, Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee's eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, filed suit against the United States government in a Virginia circuit court to regain the property. [ 19 ] [ 27 ] Custis Lee was a major general in the Civil War and was captured by Union forces at the Battle of Sailor's Creek on April 6, 1865 (see ...
Mary Anna Custis Lee (cousin) William Orton Williams , (July 7, 1839 – June 9, 1863) called Orton Williams until he changed his name to Lawrence Williams Orton , was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War who, after being caught behind Union lines in a U.S. Army uniform, was executed as a spy .
George 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 Randolph Custis Lee.His grandfather, George Washington Parke Custis was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (the wife of George Washington).
Robert 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 became a soldier during the American Civil War , and later was a planter , businessman, and author.
Mary Custis Lee's daughter, also called Mary, had loaned it out for the event (two years later, she would sell it to a collector to raise money for Confederate war widows). This appears to be ...
Mary Custis Lee (1808–1873), Mariah's half-sister. The family became part of the free people of color in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War. Maria (Mariah) Carter was born into slavery, the mixed-race daughter of planter George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), the only grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage. [2]