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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 Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington , the wife of George Washington .
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 ...
Custis married Mary Lee Fitzhugh. Their only child to survive to adulthood was Mary Anna Randolph Custis. Robert E. Lee, whose mother was a cousin of Mrs. Custis, frequently visited Arlington and knew Mary Anna as they grew up. Two years after graduating from West Point, Lieutenant Lee married Mary Anna Custis at Arlington on June 30, 1831. For ...
Ann Randolph Fitzhugh (1783–1806), ∞ 1800 : William Craik (1761–1814) Mary Lee Fitzhugh (1788–1853), ∞ 1804 : George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), owner of Arlington House. Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1808–1873), ∞ 1831 : Robert Edward Lee (1807–1870), owner of Arlington House. Lee family
George W. P. Custis and his wife Mary Fitzhugh Custis who raised their daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis at Arlington, left the estate to her. Custis stipulated that whomever owned his beloved Arlington must be named Custis. Therefore, Arlington would go to his daughter and then to his grandson, Custis Lee.
He was married to Mary Anna Randolph Custis, [8] who was a granddaughter of Martha Washington and also was Lee's third cousin once removed through Richard Lee II, fourth cousin through William Randolph, and third cousin through Robert Carter I. R. E.
An Army veteran of the War of 1812, George W. P. Custis and his wife Mary Fitzhugh Custis were buried in a fenced-in area now located in section 13. George W. P. Custis and his wife Mary Fitzhugh Custis who raised their daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis at Arlington, left the estate to her. [4]
An informal flower garden was planted beneath the trees and maintained by the Custis daughters. [3] It is not clear when "the Grove" began to be developed, but it was under way by at least 1853. [3] G.W.P.'s daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Robert E. Lee, an impoverished lieutenant in the United States Army, in June 1831. The Lees ...